Libya’s military brigade seized more than 1.3 million narcotic pills after a firefight with smugglers in a southeastern town that injured three soldiers, \u200cthe military said on Friday.<\/p>\n
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The north African nation has become a major regional transit hub for synthetic drugs and other narcotics en route to domestic users and elsewhere in the continent, the United Nations (UN) said in January.<\/p>\n
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In a statement, a military media unit \u2060said the Subul al-Salam infantry brigade in Kufra, about 1 700 km (1 000 miles) from the capital, Tripoli, targeted hideouts used by traffickers of narcotics and illicit goods.<\/p>\n
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Pictures it posted showed soldiers standing around tens of transparent plastic small bags filled with round white pills bearing the number one and a sentence in black that read “made in Germany”.<\/p>\n
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The brigade operates under the Land Forces General Staff and owes responsibility to the \u200cmilitary \u2060commander Khalifa Haftar of the eastern-based Libyan National Army.<\/p>\n
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The statement gave no value for the drugs seized.<\/p>\n
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Drug gangs have exploited the tumultuous situation in the country since 2011, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime \u2060said in a January report.<\/p>\n
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Libya plunged into a prolonged period of internal conflict and division after former ruler Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in a NATO-backed uprising that year.<\/p>\n
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Five \u2060people were handed death sentences by a court in the Western Mountains region, about 160 km (100 miles) southwest of Tripoli, for importing \u2060more than 2 million pills of psychotropic substances, the attorney general said in October.<\/p>\n
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