Colombia seizes $265 million worth of cocaine in shipping containers


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  • Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police on Tuesday seized cocaine with an estimated value of $265 million in shipping containers at the Pacific port of Buenaventura, a city on the Andean country's Pacific coast, a senior official reported.

Some 4.9 tonnes of the drug were seized in two containers at Colombia's most important Pacific port, anti-narcotics police director General Jorge Luis Ramirez said.

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