Drugs with an estimated street value of BD5 million ($13.2 million) have been destroyed by Bahraini authorities.

The illegal narcotics, weighing more than 2,000kg, were confiscated by police between 2001 and 2007, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

They have been incinerated in a furnace supplied by a specialist company that is capable of reaching temperatures of 1,000C.

"After the drug related cases were completed and there is no more chance to file objections against the cases, the Committee for Destroying and Delivering Confiscated Drugs has burnt all the drugs confiscated in the period from 2001 until 2007," chief prosecutor Osama Al Oufi, who heads the committee, said in a statement yesterday.

"The drugs weighing 2,146kg with a market value of BD5m were all incinerated at 1,000C."

He said it took four hours to destroy the drugs and the process was documented through photographs and video. - TradeArabia News Service