A Senegalese man has been arrested with drugs and a loaded pistol by officers of the Gambia Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Senegal-Gambia border.

The man’s arrest comes as another Senegalese man was arrested today (12 Oct.) with 52 blocks of cocaine at a warehouse in Jimpex, Kanifing. 

“DLEAG operatives stationed at Amdalai border post nabbed a Senegalese National with twenty (20) pills of ecstasy, a pistol and four (4) live rounds,” the agency said in a statement.

In September, two Gambian Police officers were gunned down and a third female officer left with serious injuries while manning a checkpoint in Sukuta. 

A US-based Gambian man has been declared fugitive last week after police found a loaded pistol in his car at a checkpoint. The suspect fled the scene leaving his partner to be arrested.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba