Two held with 4kg heroin

Published December 30, 2002

LAHORE, Dec 29: The Anti-Narcotics Force, Punjab, on Sunday seized four kg heroin of fine quality worth Rs40 million and arrested two Africans.

Punjab ANF Commander Brig.Ashfaqul Rasheed was tipped off that a group of Africans was involved in sending narcotics abroad. An ANF team raided Rex Plaza on Nicholson Road and arrested two people —- Joshua Chigbogu of Nigeria and Frank Eliase Sanga of Tanzania and recovered four kg heroin from their shopping bag. During investigation, they confessed to smuggling heroin abroad.

A case has been registered.

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