Stock of drugs seized in Beruwala at the Police Narcotics Bureau

Five arrested with 290kg of heroin at sea: Five suspects have been arrested while they were sailing with a consignment of 290 kg of heroin in the seas off Beruwala this morning, the navy said.

The heroin was being brought in a trawler from the deep seas to the mainland when the raid was carried out by the Police Narcotics Bureau and the Navy upon an alert by the State Intelligence Service.

The arrested suspects were residents of Balapitiya.

The seized heroin has been taken to the Beruwala harbour.