Drug overdose kills 14 in four months – Kuwaitis, expats among victims

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KUWAIT CITY, May 17: Fourteen Kuwaiti citizens and residents have died due to drug overdose since the beginning of the year, reports the Gulf Digital News. The updated figures are featured in a periodic report issued by the General Directorate for Criminal Evidence. A security source warned the increasing danger of drug trafficking, calling for a wide-ranging plan to combat the scourge which threatening Kuwaitis.

He pointed out that lab tests revealed that some narcotics and heroin seized in security operations were actually mixed with poisonous substances to increase weight, which took a heavy toll on peoples health and safe. He warned against the alarming increase in drug addicts, urging civil society institutions to cooperate with state to protect Kuwaiti youngsters, reported by Al- Qabas.

Wanted man held: Police have arrested an unidentified Kuwaiti who had been sentenced in absentia, reports Annahar daily. The daily added, at the time of arrest the man, who was caught in Salmiya for reckless driving, was in possession of drugs and drug consuming tools. He has been handed over to the concerned authorities.

Meanwhile, the Jahra police have arrested a Kuwaiti for possessing and consuming drugs and narcotic pills, reports Al-Rai daily. The daily added, the police picked the man on suspicion when they saw his car parked in the parking lot of a school. Police have seized from him 15 narcotic pills and two sachets of a kind of a substance. Also at the time of arrest the man was disoriented. He has been handed over to the General Department of Drugs Control.

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