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Panama seizes cocaine destined for Europe

Xinhua, February 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Panama has seized cocaine at a port in the northern province of Colon worth 70 million U.S. dollars on the black market, local authorities said Monday.

The cache included 600 packets of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container aboard a vessel that had arrived from Canada and was on its way to Belgium.

So far this year, authorities have seized about 1.3 tons of drugs at various ports around the country. Endi