Cairo: About 144 other people died last year in Kuwait due to drug overdoses, a Kuwaiti newspaper said, citing security sources.
Kuwaitis accounted for 61 of the deaths and the rest were foreigners, al-Qabas said, citing the resources.
Men accounted for 92 per cent of institutions, while the remaining 8 per cent were women.
“The accumulation of these deaths is due to the proliferation of adulterated drugs. Tests in offenders’ evidence laboratories have shown that the main explanation for why overdose deaths are due to adulterated drugs,” Al Qabas quoted the resources as saying.
“Drug traffickers basically target university academics followed by schoolchildren,” they added.
People in the 31- to 40-year-old age organization stand out for overdose deaths, followed by the 41- to 50-year-old organization, they noted.
Kuwait arrested another 3,000 people in drug-related cases and seized record quantities of narcotics last year, Al Qabas reported earlier this year.
The criminals included 1,500 Kuwaitis, 800 stateless biduns, three hundred Egyptian expatriates and the rest belong to Syrian, Lebanese, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationalities, Al-Qabas added.
Approximately 860 other expatriates were expelled from Kuwait for offenses of drug use or possession of small amounts of drugs that warranted prosecution of criminals opposed to them.
Over the past year, Kuwait’s anti-drug police seized nearly 1,700 kilograms of hashish, the largest shipment in a single year.
They also seized about 10 million drug pills and 30 kilograms of heroin, as well as two hundred kilograms of methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant known as shabu, according to sources.
Kuwait applies serious consequences in cases of drugs, the death penalty.
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