Panama seizes five tonnes of illicit drugs bound for Spain
Panama seized fives tonnes of illicit drugs in the Caribbean that were on board a boat bound for Spain, becoming the biggest confiscation of illicit substances inside a container, authorities said on Thursday (Feb 29).
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00:00 Panama seized five tons of illicit drugs in the Caribbean that were on board a boat bound
00:08 for Spain, becoming the biggest confiscation of illicit substances inside a container on
00:14 February 29.
00:16 Authorities said the parcels were found in a port at the Caribbean port of Colón inside
00:21 a banana cargo.
00:22 The boat departed from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and was heading to Spain.
00:27 So far in 2024, Panamanian authorities have seized 19 tons of drugs.
00:33 Last year, the country confiscated 119 of drugs, most of them cocaine.
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