Egypt on Saturday detained two foreigners for drug smuggling after they flew in to Cairo international airport carrying a large quantity of cocaine, official sources told AFP.
A Cairo prosecutor ordered the German woman and Turkish man held “for four days for investigations on charges of bringing in 11 kilogrammes of cocaine” into the country, a judicial source said.
A security source told AFP the pair arrived on an Emirates flight from Dubai.
Egypt’s cabinet in late January approved a legislative amendment to increase punishments for drug smugglers to include the death penalty.
The proposal still needs to be passed by parliament.