Turkish and Greek anti-narcotics forces seized ‘large amounts’ of opiate drugs in Greece’s Piraeus port in capital Athens, according to security sources on Monday.

Turkish narcotics police, acting on intelligence that a vessel from Syria carrying drugs was heading for the Greek port of Piraeus in Athens, contacted their Greek counterparts. A Turkish team then accompanied Greek police squads in a raid that netted millions of opiate drugs hidden inside lead blocks in a shipping container.

Turkey’s Demirören News Agency reported that the vessel had left the Syrian port of Latakia and its final destination was Dubai. No further details were available about the drug shipment.

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