Srilanka, March 8 -- Two passengers who were illegally bringing a consignment of foreign-made cigarettes worth

Rs. 5.88 million into the country and were taking them out of the Katunayake Airport were arrested by a group of Police Narcotics Bureau officers in the early hours of Thursday (6).

Both of them were residents of the Nittambuwa area and one of them was a 42-year-old woman who had come, specifically to transport these cigarettes to this country.

The other person was a 23-year-old man who works in an apartment building in Sharjah, UAE.

The man had arrived at the Katunayake Airport from Dubai at 12.00 a.m. on Thursday (6) and the woman had come from Sharjah at 4.40 a.m..

The luggage they had brought had included cigarettes whic...