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PNG police say drug trafficking in Western Province widespread

Posted at 19:34 on 15 August, 2007 UTC

Police in Papua New Guinea say drug trafficking in the country’s western province is widespread and even public servants are involved in it.

This comes after police confiscated 2.5kg of marijuana at the airport in Daru in the western province just four days after 8kg of the drug was found in possession of a woman there.

The newspaper, The National, reports police have arrested four people in connection with it.

Police Constable, Robert Wane, says public servants, school children and ordinary villagers are trafficking drugs in the province.