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The two drug smugglers arrested by Dubai Police along with sacks of narcotics pills found in steel pipes.(Supplied)
Dubai Police has foiled an attempt to smuggle into the UAE as many as 6.5 million narcotic pills with a market value of about Dh65 million.
Police said the Captagon tablets were found concealed between the double walls of metal pipes.
Major General Khamis Mattar Almazina said at a news conference that two Arabs working in the vegetable market and a Pakistani truck driver have been arrested.
Maj. Gen. Almazina said the seized drugs were packed in a shipment which arrived at Jebel Ali Port from an Asian country. The shipment was unloaded and stored in a warehouse in Fujeirah and later brought to Dubai again for transporting it to another Gulf country. The Captagon tablets were found in a truck which had been rented for Dh300 a day in Ras Al Khor Industrial Area. Two of the three people arrested were looking for a man to transport the narcotic pills to a GCC state.
Police said the first suspect was arrested near Dragon Mart while the second suspect was arrested from his office in the fruit and vegetable market.
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