Sri Lanka, May 10 -- A Sri Lankan passenger who had arrived in the country carrying a consignment of the narcotic 'hashish' has been arrested by officers of the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) earlier today (10).

The suspect, a 24-year-old resident of Grandpass, Colombo, had arrived at the BIA at around 12.30 a.m. onboard a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok, Thailand, Ada Derana reporter said.

Upon inspection of his luggage, officers had discovered 15 chocolate-style packages containing hashish.

Investigations revealed that the suspect had smuggled in a total of 4 kilograms and 778 grams of hashish concealed inside the parcels.

According to the Police Narcotics Bureau, the street va...