US EditionSri Lanka detains 22 Buddhist monks for drug smuggling
Customs said each monk carried about 5 kilos of the narcotic hidden in false walls in luggage.
- On Sunday, twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested at the international airport in Colombo with 110 kilograms of Kush hidden in their luggage.
- Sri Lanka Customs officials said the group concealed the drugs following a four-day holiday in Bangkok. "Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage," the spokesman said.
- Officials noted this seizure represents the largest single detection of Kush at the South Asian country's main international airport. The monks were young students from temples across Sri Lanka whose trip was sponsored by a businessman.
- They were to be taken before a magistrate later on Sunday to face charges after Sri Lanka Customs handed them over to police for investigation.
- Previous detections include a 21-year-old British woman arrested in May last year with 46 kilograms of the drug at the same airport, as authorities continue monitoring smuggling routes.
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After returning from Thailand there were 22 arrests, 110 kilograms of addictive poison were seized.
The group, returning to Sri Lanka after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had hidden in its luggage of the Kush - a powerful variety of plant-based cannabis, said a Sri Lankan customs spokesman.
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AlKhaleej TodaySri Lanka detains 22 monks returning from Thailand over record cannabis haul
COLOMBO, April 26 — Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with 110 kilogrammes (242 pounds) of powerful cannabis, officials said.A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day holiday in the Thai capital, had Kush — a potent, plant-based strain of cannabis — hidden in their luggage.“Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within…
Sri Lankan monks arrive to appear before the courts after their arrest in Negombo on 26 April 2026 - Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks were arrested on Sunday on their return from Thailand to the international airport near Colombo with 110 kilos of a powerful cannabis type, the authorities said.The group, who was returning to Sri Lanka after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had hidden in his Kush luggage – a powerful v…
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