A statement issued by the Jordanian General Security said: “The anti -drug foiled an attempt to smuggle 1. 5 kilograms of cocaine inside the guts of a foreign traveler with a South American nationality coming to the Kingdom through Queen Alia International Airport,” thirty kilometers south of Amman.
He explained that the workers in the drug control department inside the airport monitored the traveler “indications of hiding quantities of drugs inside his guts, and he was immediately accompanied by Al -Bashir Hospital” in Amman, and “when photographing by radiation, the pictures showed the presence of a group of capsules inside his body.
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The statement indicated that the traveler “confessed to his attempt to smuggle a quantity of cocaine inside his guts”, and was removed from his body “medical methods” 45 capsules that it was found that contains 1. 5 kilograms of narcotic cocaine.
For its part, the Jordanian army announced in a statement that “the Jordanian border guards thwarted at dawn on Wednesday at the attempt to infiltrate and smuggle large quantities of narcotic drugs coming from the Syrian territories.
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The statement quoted a responsible military source in the General Command as saying: “The border guards monitored through the front observations that a group of smugglers crossed the border illegally from the Syrian territories to Jordanian territory. ”
He added that “the rapid reaction patrols and the application of the rules of engagement were applied to direct shooting to them, which led to the injury of one of them and the escape of others inside the Syrian depth. “.
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