Syria’s General Authority for Borders and Customs said it foiled an attempt to smuggle a quantity of narcotics through the Qamar Bridge border crossing with Lebanon during routine inspections of luggage belonging to arriving travelers.[1] The inspection recovered 2,600 grams of hashish and 17 grams of heroin that had been tightly concealed together inside a loudspeaker to disguise them and bypass customs inspection.[2]

The 2,600 grams of hashish equal 2.6 kilograms and form the separately supported cannabis component of this mixed seizure, while the 17 grams of heroin are a non-cannabis drug excluded from the cannabis figure.[1] The authority said a customs seizure report was drawn up and the necessary legal measures were taken, and it pledged continued efforts against narcotics smuggling with tighter surveillance of border crossings.[3]

The Qamar Bridge crossing lies in the Wadi Khaled area of Akkar in northern Lebanon.[1] It is the only open border crossing in northern Lebanon with Syria, and it is restricted exclusively to pedestrian crossings.[2]