ABU DHABI: Police in Abu Dhabi have seized than 700 kilograms (1,500 pounds) of hashish with a street value of two million dollars smuggled in by two Asian nationals, Emirati police said on Saturday.

The police, quoted by a local news agency, said the drugs were found in Mussafah, near Abu Dhabi, concealed in a consignment of animal fodder after its transfer from another member of the United Arab Emirates.

One of the suspected traffickers had been arrested while the other, the alleged head of a smuggling ring, managed to leave the UAE where he had arrived as a visitor.

In early June, Dubai police busted a four-member Asian ring which had smuggled in 41 kilograms (90 pounds) of heroin valued at 5.4 million dollars.

Several foreigners in the UAE, which imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking, have been condemned to death in recent years but no such executions have been announced. The sentences are often commuted to life in prison.