Sri Lanka, Sept. 25 -- The Tangalle Magistrate's Court has granted permission to police to detain and question three suspects arrested in connection with the discovery of a large stock of crystal methamphetamine ('Ice') and heroin hidden in three lorries in the Seenimodara area of Tangalle.

Police said two lorry owners and the son of drug trafficker Unakuruwa Thusitha, who recently died while receiving hospital treatment-were produced before the Tangalle Magistrate's Court last evening (24). The Magistrate ordered that the three suspects be detained and questioned until September 29.

In addition, the court ordered the detention and interrogation of another lorry owner and a driver who were arrested in connection with the case, also unti...