UK woman arrested in heroin smuggling attempt

A British woman was arrested on suspicion she attempted to smuggle heroin, valued at nearly $5 million, from Pakistan to Britain, police said. Khadija Shah, 25, was about to board a plane Sunday from Islamabad, to Birmingham, England, her home, after a six-week vacation with relatives in Pakistan when she was arrested, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. "There are routine baggage checks for drugs. In the course of those, anti-narcotics officers found 123 packages of heroin in her luggage," an airport police officer said. The newspaper said 140 pounds of heroin was discovered, valued it at 3 million British pounds, or $4.83 million, and said Pakistani media learned Shah, who was traveling with two children and is pregnant with a third, told investigators she was carrying other people's luggage. She had no idea what was in the bags, she allegedly said.