Foreign national arrested at BIA with cocaine worth Rs. 13 mln
The officers attached to the Narcotic Control unit at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake have arrested a passenger at the Green Channel who arrived from Sierra Leon last morning on suspicion of trafficking narcotic substances.
The officers put the suspect through the body scanner at the Customs area and identified that the passenger had concealed drugs in his person.
The 32-year-old suspect is a Sierra Leon national and had arrived in Sri Lanka via Istanbul by flight TK 730 operated by Turkish Airlines in the morning yesterday (12).
The suspect was admitted to the Negombo Hospital and 17 pellets suspected of containing narcotics have been retrieved so far.
