Off the wire
• Gold futures settle at four-month high as greenback weakens  • 2nd LD Writethru: Migration is a positive global phenomenon -- UN chief  • Memory loss from West Nile virus may be preventable  • Hard Brexit might endanger 14,000 jobs in German car industry: report  • U.S. stocks close higher  • Roundup: Syrian army responds to major rebel attack in Idlib amid gov't denial of hospital targeting  • Controversial land acquisition hinders Foxconn project in U.S. Wisconsin  • Canadian B.C. provincial premier and ministers prepare to make Asia tour on trade  • Protesters rally against Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Washington DC  • Oil prices extend gains after U.S. production drop  
You are here: 　

Morocco nabs Nigerian with cocaine capsules hidden in stomach

Xinhua,January 12, 2018 Adjust font size:

RABAT, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Moroccan police seized on Thursday 74 capsules filled with 1.395 kg of cocaine in the stomach of a Nigerian national at Morocco's Casablanca Airport.

The banned substance was extracted from the suspected drug trafficker at Ibn Rochd University Hospital, the police said in a statement.

The Nigerian national was arrested on his arrival in the Casablanca Airport on a flight from Brazil's Sao Paulo, the statement added.

The suspect was remanded in police custody pending the investigation under the supervision of the public prosecutor. Enditem

 

Related News & Photos