PESHAWAR, Sept 20: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) seized 840kg of fine quality hashish and arrested a woman smuggler on Saturday. Two of her accomplices managed to escape owing to death of a sub-inspector due to heart failure.

According to a press release, the CID personnel were tipped-off about the smuggling attempt of huge quantity of hashish in an ambulance from Bara in Khyber Agency to the Punjab province.

A CID team, headed by SI Haji Hazrat Khan, erected barricade on Ring Road near Pishtakhara. Seeing an ambulance coming from Bara, the CID personnel signalled the vehicle to stop.

But the driver of the ambulance accelerated. The driver and his accomplice, after less than a kilometre drive, parked the ambulance along the roadside and fled, leaving the woman smuggler and the hashish in the vehicle.

The CID reached the ambulance but could not go after the driver and his accomplice as SI Hazrat Khan suffered a fatal heart attack.

However, the CID team arrested the woman smuggler, Neelam, a resident of Kanju (Swat), and recovered 840kg of fine quality of hashish packed in 800 polythene packets. The CID personnel have started investigations.