Iranian drug smuggler dies of heart attack

RAJKOT: One of the nine Iranian drug traffickers who were arrested in March last year with 100kg heroin worth Rs 500 crore died of cardiac arrest on Monday morning.
Police said Dor Mohmmed Naqib Raees (58) developed chest pain, following which he was taken to Rajkot Civil Hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
“The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad and the Indian Coast Guard had arrested Raees and eight other Iranian drug smugglers on March 26, 2019 along with a huge caché of contraband in a boat off Porbandar coast,” said V S Vanzara, inspector with Pradyumannagar police station.Raees was first lodged in Porbandar Central Jail from where he was transferred to Rajkot Central Jail on June 22, 2019.
The police have sent Raees’ body for postmortem. He was earlier taken to a hospital in Ahmedabad for a health check-up before the lockdown was imposed.