NNA - The new authorities in Syria burned large quantities of drugs, including about a million Captagon pills that were widely produced during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, according to what two security sources told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday.

A source in the Public Security Department said, "The security services affiliated with the new Syrian government found a warehouse of narcotic drugs during a sweep of the capital, Damascus, specifically inside the security square in the Kafr Sousa area."

While a second source confirmed that “nearly or more than a million pills were found, we burned them immediately.” 

An Agence France-Presse photographer reported that security personnel set fire to quantities of Indian cannabis, boxes of the drug Tramadol, and about fifty small bags containing pink Captagon pills.

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