Police in Siraha recovered 105 kg of marijuana from an ambulance, registration Ja 1 Cha 1213, travelling from Choharwa toward Jayanagar at about 8 pm on Tuesday.[1]

Acting on a tip-off that marijuana had been loaded into the ambulance, a police team under Inspector Sunil Chaurasiya set up barricades at three points between Choharwa and Siraha.[1] The driver realised the ambulance was under surveillance, broke through all three barricades and fled, later abandoning the vehicle on the Hulaki Road section in Siraha Municipality-1 and escaping on foot as police closed in.[1]

Police found the marijuana packed in five sacks inside the abandoned ambulance.[1] The vehicle and the drugs were brought to the District Police Office in Siraha, where SP Basudev Pathak said investigation was under way and efforts to identify and trace the fleeing driver were continuing.[1]