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Sri Lanka detains 22 Buddhist monks for drug smuggling
Customs said each monk carried about 5 kilos of the narcotic hidden in false walls in luggage.
- On Sunday, twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested at the international airport in Colombo with 110 kilograms of Kush hidden in their luggage.
- Sri Lanka Customs officials said the group concealed the drugs following a four-day holiday in Bangkok. "Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage," the spokesman said.
- Officials noted this seizure represents the largest single detection of Kush at the South Asian country's main international airport. The monks were young students from temples across Sri Lanka whose trip was sponsored by a businessman.
- They were to be taken before a magistrate later on Sunday to face charges after Sri Lanka Customs handed them over to police for investigation.
- Previous detections include a 21-year-old British woman arrested in May last year with 46 kilograms of the drug at the same airport, as authorities continue monitoring smuggling routes.
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Twenty-two monks were arrested at an airport in Sri Lanka, after authorities discovered 110 kilograms of cannabis hidden in their luggage, BBC reports.
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