Police seized 246 kg of opium in Tehran
Kathmandu: Iran’s police seized 246 kilograms of opium in two separate operations in the Iranian capital of Tehran, local media reported on Sunday.
In one of the operations, the police forces smashed a drug trafficking gang, seizing 218 kg of opium, Hamid Hodavand, Tehran’s deputy police commander, was quoted as saying by semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Hodavand said the gang members were monitored round the clock and arrested on the road while traveling to the north of the country. In the other operation, Iran’s Airports Police seized 28 kg of opium from two outgoing passengers at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, accroding to Airports Police Commander Mohsen Aqili.
Aqili said the two drug traffickers have been handed over to judicial authorities.
