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Airport Security Thwarts Attempt to Smuggle Qat to Lebanon

Customs agents at the Rafik Hariri International Airport thwarted on Tuesday an attempt to smuggle the narcotic leaf qat, reported the National News Agency.

It said that an Ethiopian woman was attempting to smuggle 6.6 kilograms of the substance in her luggage.

She was traveling to Lebanon from Ethiopia.

She has been arrested and investigations are underway in the case.


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