50 kg of heroin seized on Iraqi-Syrian borders

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Fifty kilograms of heroin that were supposed to be smuggled in a car from Iraq to Syria were seized at Rabiea border point, the director general of the point said on Friday. “The heroin was hidden in a BMW car,” Brig. Khalaf Hussein al-Juburi told IraqiNews.com news agency . “One-hundred bags of heroin, each weighing 500 grams, were seized inside the vehicle,” he said . “The operation took place based on intelligence tip-offs,” he added . The Rabiea point, on the borderlines between Iraq and Syria, is 110 km west of Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, 405 km north of Baghdad . MH (P)/AmR 2