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

Twenty-two Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka were arrested after customs officials found 110kg of high-grade cannabis (kush) concealed in their luggage at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport, where they had returned from a sponsored Bangkok holiday. A 23rd monk, alleged to have organized the trip and told others the parcels were donations, was later detained in a Colombo suburb; the haul, valued at 1.1bn rupees (£2.5m), marks the largest single kush seizure at the airport.