Six foreigners may be hung for smuggling drugs in Malaysia

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia. November 19. KAZINFORM The Malaysian police have arrested six foreigners in the last three days for smuggling drugs into the country, a Malaysian police official said Friday. Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Speaking at a press conference here in Selangor, a central state in west coast Peninsula Malaysia, the official said that the suspects included three Iranian males, two Zimbabwean females and a Nigerian male.

Once convicted, they could be sentenced to death under the Malaysian law, said the official.

According to the police, this is the first time that suspected drug traders from Zimbabwe were held in Malaysia.

Syabu of 11.4 kilograms worth 2.8 million ringgit (909,000 U.S. dollars) were seized from the drug mules, said the official. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version