PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Reuter) Seven tonnes of marijuana bound for Sri
Lanka have been confiscated in Cambodia's southern port city of
Sihanoukville, a chief drug official said on Saturday.

Heng Pou, Phnom Penh's chief of antidrug police, said one Cambodian man
had been arrested in connection with the case and more individuals were being
investigated.

Police seized the marijuana on April 2 when it was about to be shipped to
Sri Lanka, he said.

Heng Pou would not provide further details about the detained man.

A law signed by King Norodom Sihanouk on January 24 provides jail terms
for trafficking in marijuana.

Police and customs officers in Europe, Africa and Australia last year
seized almost 60 tonnes of marijuana in containers that came from Cambodia.