Sun, 2023-03-12 01:19
LONDON: Iraqi authorities on Saturday said they seized three million pills of captagon, an amphetamine-type stimulant that has been sweeping the Middle East for years, near the Syrian border.
The pills had been hidden in apple crates “loaded onto a refrigerator truck” and discovered at the Al-Qaim crossing between Syria’s Deir Ezzor province and western Iraq’s Anbar desert region, the Iraqi border authority said.
![Captagon pills, hidden in apple crates, were seized by the Iraqis at the Al-Qaim border crossing between Syria and Iraq. (Iraqi border authority/AFP)](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.asianewsday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Iraq-seizes-three-million-captagon-pills-on-Syria-border.jpg?media=1711926444)
![Captagon pills, hidden in apple crates, were seized by the Iraqis at the Al-Qaim border crossing between Syria and Iraq. (Iraqi border authority/AFP)](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.asianewsday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1678583520_803_Iraq-seizes-three-million-captagon-pills-on-Syria-border.jpg?media=1711926444)
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