Navy frigate seizes £8.5m of heroin

A ROYAL Navy warship has seized £8.5 million worth of heroin during a raid on a fishing boat in the northern Arabian Sea.

Nearly 60 kilos of the drug was seized by sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Somerset, the Plymouthbased Type 23 frigate, who intercepted the suspect vessel using fast boats.

HMS Somerset’s crew found the dhow – a type of vessel common to the Middle East and Indian Ocean during an operation for the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) counter-terrorism Combined Task Force (CTF) 150.

Commodore Jeremy Blunden, commander of CFT 150, said:“The destruction of the drugs will reduce key funding lines for known terror groups.”