Sri Lanka police arrest 22 Buddhist monks after 110kg of cannabis found in luggage

Customs officials said group, mostly junior monks, were alleged to have concealed about five kilos of ‘kush’ within false walls in luggage Twenty two buddhist monks are in Sri Lankan police custody after custom officials discovered 110kg of high-grade cannabis concealed in their luggage, the largest ever drug bust at Colombo’s main international airport. The group – mostly junior monks in training from temples across Sri Lanka – were alleged to have “carried about five kilos of the narcotic c...

By Oliver Holmes