RUKUM: Police arrested two youths along with 2.5 kilograms of hashish in the district on Monday.

They were arrested from Dhaulapahira of local Bhume Rural Municipality in east Rukum. The arrested are 27-year-old Tara Roka of Kyangsi, Bhume Rural Municipality-3 and 16-year-old Tilak Pun Magar of Ward number 6 of the same rural municipality.

A special squad mobilized by the District Police Office nabbed them in possessing hashish, Chief of the District Police Office, Deputy Superintendent Yogendra Kumar Khadka said.