Authorities seize amount of narcotic Captagon prepared to be smuggled into Jordanian territory

Daraa, SANA-The competent authorities in Daraa seized on Thursday a large quantity of narcotic Captagon pills intended for smuggling outside the country and hidden in a truck that was traveling on the Damascus-Daraa highway.

A source at the competent authorities said in a statement to SANA reporter that one of the patrols, within its scope of work in pursuit of outlaws, seized a large quantity of the narcotic Captagon that was placed in a spare fuel tank of a truck.

The source added that the amount estimated at tens of thousands of narcotic pills was intended to be smuggled into Jordan.

The source said that the competent authorities seized the car and referred the smugglers to the competent judiciary.

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