Drug smuggling attempt to Jordan leads to casualties in Syria’s Suwayda
SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – A smuggler was killed and other were injured on Saturday evening, on the outskirts of the border town of Khirbat Awad in Suwayda southern Syria.
This took place during clashes between the smugglers and the Jordanian border guards in Suwayda, while they were smuggling drugs and heading towards Jordan.
During the past months, Jordan hindered more than one attempt of drug and hashish smuggling to its territories across the Syrian border.
The southern part of the town witnessed clashes while a group of smugglers were trying to transfer a load of drugs to the Jordanian territories, a local source from the town told North Press.
“The smugglers took advantage of the rainy and foggy weather in the area, but the Jordanian border guards surprised them by an ambush,” the source added.
During the clashes some smugglers leaked into the town that their houses were violently damaged due to the mutual firing, according to the source.
Meanwhile, people of the town fled to the northern part of the town fearing clashes to continue.
Hours after the operation, the Jordanian security authorities announced through their media, that they curbed a drugs smuggling attempt to their territories through the Syrian borders.
During the operation; they seized a load of drugs that contained 1,942 bags of hashish and more than 20,000 pills of Captagon in addition to other narcotic substances, the authorities added.
The source said that this incident is not the first, and that “financed groups of drug dealers affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia have violated the southern region to be a large area for smuggling drugs to Jordan.”