The World - News from April 12, 1988

Israeli police and soldiers swept into southern Lebanon and arrested dozens of drug traffickers suspected of smuggling heroin and hashish into Israel, police said. The unusual raid was aimed at checking a growing cross-border drug trade and narcotics addiction in Israel’s self-proclaimed security zone in southern Lebanon, police added. Lebanese sources said more than 100 Israeli police detained 65 drug traffickers in three villages north of the border and confiscated nearly nine pounds of heroin and cocaine and 110 pounds of hashish.