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Saudi Arabia has banned the import of fruit and vegetables from Lebanon after authorities seized more than 600 million pills and hundreds of kilograms of hashish in the past six years, Riyadh's ambassador to Beirut said on Sunday.
Walid Al Bukhari revealed the full extent of drug seizures days after more than five million captagon pills were found in a shipment of pomegranates that arrived in Jeddah from Lebanon.
“The quantities that were thwarted are enough to drown the entire Arab world, not just Saudi Arabia, in narcotics and psychotropic substances,” Mr Al Bukhari wrote on Twitter.
الكميات التي يتم إحباط تهريبها كافية لإغراق الوطن العربي بأكمله بالمخدرات والمؤثرات العقلية وليس #السعودية وحدها.#الحرب_على_المخدرات — Waleed A. Bukhari (@bukhariwaleeed)