{"id":44,"date":"2026-04-21T06:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:29:56","slug":"foreign-national-arrested-at-katunayake-airport-with-kush-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/21\/foreign-national-arrested-at-katunayake-airport-with-kush-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign National Arrested at Katunayake Airport with \u2018Kush\u2019 Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"210\">A foreign national has been arrested at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bandaranaike International Airport<\/span><\/span> for possessing more than one kilogram of \u2018Kush\u2019 narcotics.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"359\">According to police, the suspect was apprehended during a joint inspection carried out by airport Customs officers and the Police Narcotics Bureau.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"361\" data-end=\"438\">The arrested individual has been identified as a 35-year-old Indian national.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"552\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Further investigations into the incident are currently being conducted by the airport Police Narcotics Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign national has been arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport for possessing more than one kilogram of \u2018Kush\u2019 narcotics. According to police, the suspect was apprehended during a joint inspection carried out by airport Customs officers and the Police Narcotics Bureau. The arrested individual has been identified as a 35-year-old Indian national. Further investigations into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}