EIGHT DRUGS DEALERS, 3 AFRICANS, TO FACE COURT IN YEMEN

HADRAMOUT, Oct 27(Saba) - The authorities in Yemen's eastern
province of Hadramout have completed investigating eight drug
dealers including three Africans, with the group to be turned over
to the Prosecution.

The Africans were a Somali, a Tanzanian, and a Kenyan, and they were
arrested along with the other Yemeni dealers off the Al-Shehr port
with 1.680 ton of drugs.

They are expected in court soon.

In June, the navy seized two fishing boats carrying a huge stash of
drugs hidden in 162 bags.

The two boats were apprehended 13 nautical miles off the port of
Shehr city in Hadramout.

In May, the Public Prosecution destroyed four tonnes of hashish and
six million pills of amphetamines. The drugs quantities were said
would be sold for over $ 83 million.

About 75 suspects including 47 Yemenis, 12 Pakistanis, 10 Iranians,
2 Syrians, 2 Saudis and a Eritrean and Ethiopian, have faced drugs
trafficking and trade charges in the country in recent months.

The trials of some of the suspected dealers have been completed with
some sentenced to death and others to years in prison. Other trials
are still under process.

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