Iranian woman accused of smuggling drugs

AN IRANIAN woman was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days accused of trying to smuggle heroin through customs at Larnaca airport.

Passport officers got suspicious of 33-year-old Farite Sakki after they saw that she had come to Cyprus three times in the recent past.

She arrived on the 9.30am Iranair flight.

Farite was led to Larnaca hospital where x-rays showed foreign objects inside her body.

The woman allegedly admitted to police that she had swallowed around 65 cylindrical objects stuffed with hashish.

But police later said the suspect had passed 42 objects containing 140 grams of what is believed to be heroin.

Earlier this month, police arrested another Iranian man carrying hashish in his body.

In what was described as the largest haul of its sort, the man passed 173 egg-shaped objects containing a total of 1,100 grams of hashish.

He is currently in custody awaiting trial.

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