African held trying to smuggle drugs in two pumpkins

KUALA LUMPUR: Instead of the usual Halloween candies, a man stuffed two pumpkins with drugs. But his trick failed and the African was caught at the KL International Air­port.

The man had tried to fool the authorities by hiding some 4kg of syabu inside the pumpkins when he arrived from Benin in Northern Africa at 5.15pm on Tuesday – five days after Halloween.