KUALA TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA: He should be out playing with his friends, watching cartoons or doing what other 5-year-olds do.

Instead, the child is languishing in prison after his parents were caught in a mosque near here on Monday for trafficking in drugs.

The child, who was by his mother's side when she was arrested at 3.45pm near the Padang Nenas mosque, was also taken in.

The woman was in possession of 100 vials containing white powder believed to be heroin. The drug weighed a total of 450g and was worth RM200,000 (S$82 000).

Also arrested was the boy's 46-year-old father from Jeli, who was waiting in a car.

The suspects and the boy are being detained at the Kuala Terengganu police station.

State police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said the seizure was believed to be the biggest in the state in the past five years.

In a separate incident on Sunday, a 46-year-old man was arrested after a raid at a house in Kampung Pengkalan Setar, Gelugor here, at 4.25pm.

Police seized vials of heroin worth RM12,600 and weighing 21.6g, 200 stimulant pills worth RM5,000 and RM1,040 cash.

The suspect was being held at the same police station.