75-year-old woman realise her dream of performing Umrah after she was duped by drug smugglers

Dubai: Saudi authorities have helped a frail, old Egyptian woman realise her dream of performing Umrah after she fell victim to a gang of drug dealers, who told her a donor had paid for her expenses and all she had to do was deliver a bag to him.

The unsuspecting woman took the bag and began her travels. She was arrested in Yanbu airport for smuggling narcotics.

The authorities found 75,000 Tramadol pills and



other drugs in one of her bags. The 75-year-old-woman,ٍ Saadiya Abdel Salam’s dream was to perfom Umrah.

A bunch of men from her village of Dareen in Egypt approached her saying a philanthropist would pay her expenses. All she had to do was carry a bag and hand it to him.

The bag, the grandmother was told, contained clothes for his pregnant wife. Her family appeared on the Egyptian talk show, “Al Ashera Masaa”