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Colombia takes in biggest cocaine haul BOGOTA, Saturday (AFP) Colombian authorities announced Friday the confiscation of 13.5 tonnes of cocaine in what they say is the country's biggest single narcotics haul. The cocaine, with a street value of about 400 million dollars, was found during a joint police-navy raid Thursday on a processing laboratory outside the Pacific port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador. "This was the biggest drug seizure in a single operation," national police director General Jorge Castro told a press conference, adding that the lab was destroyed following the raid. Five people were arrested, and officials confiscated eight vessels, nine rifles and 22,050 litres (4,850 gallons) of chemicals used to extract cocaine from coca plant leaves. Right wing paramilitaries and leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas are active in the region. Both groups use drug trafficking as a source of revenue. |
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