Police seize 286 kg heroin in Turkey (Ipsala)

Sources told A.A correspondent that police searched a truck which was en route from Turkey to Albania at Ipsala Border Gate.

The sources said that police found 286 kilograms of heroin hidden in the truck and detained the driver of the truck.

Three more people were taken into custody in Istanbul and another was detained in southern Mersin province in connection with the heroin trafficking.

Officials said that 286 kilograms of heroin was the highest amount of drug confiscated in one operation in Edirne in the last two years, adding that 650 kilograms of heroin had been seized at the border gates in Edirne since the beginning of the year.