{"id":28353,"date":"2025-06-23T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28353"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:45:16","slug":"sri-lanka-seizes-over-three-tons-of-heroin-and-meth-since-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28353","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Seizes Over Three Tons of Heroin and Meth Since September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lankan authorities have intensified their crackdown on narcotics, seizing a staggering volume of illegal drugs since September last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the major hauls, officials intercepted approximately\u00a0<strong>1,253 kilograms of heroin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>2,121 kilograms of methamphetamine (commonly known as Ice)<\/strong> a record-high in recent years. Additionally,\u00a0<strong>12,439 kilograms of marijuana<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>22 kilograms of cocaine<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>millions of illicit drug tablets<\/strong>\u00a0were confiscated during operations carried out across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sweeping drug seizures reflect a growing effort by law enforcement and security agencies to curb the flow of dangerous substances into and within the country.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28353' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28353&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-28353' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28353' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28353' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-28353'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28353' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28353 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan authorities have intensified their crackdown on narcotics, seizing a staggering volume of illegal drugs since September last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28355,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353\/revisions\/28355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}