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Heroin hidden inside airmail parcel

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Customs officials attached to the Airmail Parcel section of the Central Mail Exchange have detected a substance suspected to be heroin inside a parcel yesterday (07). 

Customs said the said parcel had been sent from Mumbai to a 30-year-old resident of Minuwangoda. 

The value of the seized contents is approximately Rs. 3 million. Two suspects aged 45 and 26 years have been arrested during the course of preliminary investigations. 

Pix courtesy Sri Lanka Customs 

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