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Cuba dismisses report on drug container shipped from island

Xinhua, April 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cuba's General Customs Office dismissed a dispatch from the Spanish news agency EFE about the presence of drugs in a container from the island as baseless, the office said in a news release Monday.

"On April 14, the news agency EFE published a dispatch reporting the seizure at the Port of Colon in Panama of 401 kilograms of cocaine inside a container shipped at the Cuban port of Mariel with Belgium as the final destination," said the release published on the official NTV news.

Cuba's General Customs Office said "it can categorically assure that the container CLHU 387265-2 was not carrying drugs in its structure or in the metal tanks inside carrying honey, so the news reported by the EFE agency lacks any foundation."

The denial is based on a review of radiological images as well as procedures for the inspection of containers, said the news release. Endi