Saudi authorities reported that they had seized more than five million amphetamine tablets and arrested 11 people in one of the kingdom's largest drug busts.

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Drug smuggling appears to be on the rise in the ultra-conservative Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. Authorities have seized three grams of heroin, a machine gun and a pistol from the suspects of the kingdom's largest drug busts.
The interior ministry announced in November 2015 that it had seized a total of 22.4 million amphetamine tablets, 28.8 tons of cannabis and 26.2 kilograms of heroin in the last Islamic calendar year, which ends in mid-October.
Drug smuggling is punishable by death in the kingdom, which is governed according to a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Source-AFP
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