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Colombia seizes 650 kilos of cocaine off Pacific coast

Xinhua, March 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Colombian navy on Thursday seized 650 kilos of cocaine inside a speedboat en route to North America in the waters near the town of Tumaco, in the southwestern Narino department.

"The seized drugs, composed by 16 sealed black packages, weighed 650 kilos," the Colombian navy said in a statement.

Preliminary tests conducted by the district's Attorney Technical Investigations Office on the packages proved positive for cocaine, it said.

The seized drugs had a street value of 17.5 million U.S. dollars, it added.

"With this seizure, a total of 6.5 tons of cocaine have been seized by the navy in the Pacific coast this year," the navy statement said.

An investigation was underway to identify the organization behind the drug trafficking. Endi