RIYADH: Authorities in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh have arrested five persons, including two Saudis and three Syrians with a huge cache of narcotics pills.

They were trying to smuggle in a total of 765,000 amphetamine tablets that were hidden inside the shipment of watermelons, daily Saudi Gazzette and state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.

Maj. Muhammad Al-Nujaidi, spokesman of the General Directorate of Narcotics Control, said on Wednesday that the follow-up of security forces on gangs dealing with smuggling and the sale of drugs, targeting the security of the Kingdom and its youth, resulted in the seizure of 765,000 amphetamine tablets in Riyadh, hidden inside a shipment of watermelon.