RIYADH – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested eight people, including twoPakistan nationals, after they busted a drug smuggling bid in what is beingtermed as country’s biggest operation.

The Saudi state-run agency SPA reported that security authorities followedup a shipment on its arrival at the Dry Port in Riyadh.

Security agents, in coordination with the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority,raided the warehouse where the shipment was taken and arrested eightsuspects engaged in the smuggling attempt, including 6 Syrians and 2Pakistanis.

The officials recovered 46,916,480 amphetamine pills, a type of drug usedby affluent youth, hidden in a flour shipment.

The Official Spokesperson of the General Directorate of Narcotics Control(GDNC) Major Mohammed Al-Nujaidi noted, “this is biggest operation of itskind to smuggle this amount of narcotics into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabiain one operation”.

He stressed that security personnel are going on with determination andresolve to implement their duties to follow up on the activities ofcriminal networks that target the security of Saudi Arabia and its citizenswith drugs, and to combat and foil such attempts and arrest all peopleinvolved to receive the deterrent penalties.