{"id":196619,"date":"2022-10-25T08:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=196619"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T00:37:48","slug":"yemeni-govt-forces-destroyed-1558-kg-of-hashish-seized-in-border-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=196619","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Gov&#8217;t Forces Destroyed 1,558 Kg Of Hashish Seized In Border Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HAJJAH, Yemen, Oct 25 (NNN-YPA) &#8211; Yemen&#8217;s government forces, yesterday, burned 1,558 kg of hashish, seized from smugglers in the past seven months, in the north-western province of Hajjah, a security official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The destruction was carried out in the government-controlled city of Midi, in the presence of representatives of court, public prosecution, and security services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, we destroyed 1,558 kilograms of hashish that were seized from smugglers, during the past seven months,&#8221; Yunus Ibrahim Ahmed, a military officer of the Fifth Military District, of the internationally-recognised Yemeni government, said, at the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since the beginning of the civil war, more than seven years ago, around 40 drug smuggling networks from Yemen to Saudi Arabia have been foiled,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of its proximity to both the Saudi territories and the Red Sea, Hajjah has become an important stop for smugglers, trying to move drugs into Saudi Arabia from war-torn Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, the government forces burned 1,100 kg of hashish and 8,000 narcotic pills, seized from smugglers in the same area.&#8211; NNN-YPA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAJJAH, Yemen, Oct 25 (NNN-YPA) &#8211; Yemen&#8217;s government forces, yesterday, burned 1,558 kg of hashish, seized from smugglers in the past seven months, in the north-western province of Hajjah, a security official said. The destruction was carried out in the government-controlled city of Midi, in the presence of representatives of court, public prosecution, and security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196620,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196619\/revisions\/196620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}