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Georgia seizes 6.29 kg of cocaine

Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Georgian border police have detained three Bulgarian nationals for possession of 6.29 kg of cocaine which they were carrying to cross the Armenian-Georgian border, local media reported on Tuesday.

Georgian patrol police chief Davit Tsinaridze said that the haul is unprecedented in the South Caucasus country, where no such an amount of cocaine has ever been seized.

The three Bulgarians were allegedly attaching 10 packs of the narcotic drugs to their bodies while crossing the border from Armenia into Georgia on Jan. 24. Endi