Nepal’s Narcotics Control Bureau nabs 7 foreign nationals with 51kg heroin

Kathmandu : The Narcotics Control Bureau of Nepal Police has apprehended seven foreign nationals with 51 kilograms of prohibited heroin on different dates from the national capital.

As per the press release from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), those apprehended are nationals from South Africa. “They were arrested from Tribhuwan International Airport and Thamel areas earlier this week,” the bureau said in a release.

In the press conference held at the bureau, the Superintendent of Police (SP) Jeevan Kumar Shrestha said, “Seven South African women were arrested after the bureau monitored and investigated several areas around Tribhuvan International Airport and Thamel for long. The arrested arrived in Kathmandu from Fly Dubai and Qatar Airways flights on several dates.”