World Scene: Indonesia
China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-21 07:58
Heroin found in Koran
Two Indonesians have been arrested for attempting to smuggle from Cambodia heroin hidden inside a copy of the Koran, an official said yesterday.
Customs officers' suspicions were raised when a routine X-ray revealed holes in the book after it arrived at Jakarta's international airport on Tuesday in the form of an express mail delivery.
"They hid four small plastic bags of heroin in the holes they made in the pages of the Koran," Soekarno-Hatta airport customs office spokesman Evy Suhartantyo said.
(China Daily 08/21/2009 page10)
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