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Police find more than 5 tons of cocaine hidden in bananas

Drug alarm in Spain and Ecuador: A ship smuggled 3 tons of cocaine from the Canary Islands, in Ecuador 2.4 tons were hidden among bananas.

In Ecuador, police found 2.4 tons of cocaine in a container of bananas that was supposed to be shipped from the port city of Guayaquil to Belgium. According to the Interior Ministry in Quito on Sunday, the drugs were hidden in 2,461 packages in the delivery of bananas. The police seized the drug and arrested a suspect.

R$ 1 billion in drugs seized

Ecuadorian authorities seized a record 210 tons of drugs last year, mostly cocaine. More than 52.1 tons of drugs worth nearly $1.23 billion have been seized since the beginning of this year.

Ecuador, located between the main cocaine producers Colombia and Peru in northwestern South America, has become a hub for drug trafficking. Drug cartels export the goods through Pacific port cities.

hidden in the tank

Spanish police intercepted a fishing boat with nearly three tons of cocaine south of the Canary Islands. According to officials on Sunday, the 20-meter-long “AKT 1” was deployed about 300 nautical miles (555 kilometers) south of the archipelago on Wednesday. The five crew members from Turkey and Georgia were arrested.

The drugs were found in a fuel tank and are believed to have come from South America, sources said. A Spanish air patrol spotted the suspicious vessel trying to blend in with a fleet of fishing boats.

According to the police, they are acting against the “African route” of South American drug traffickers. The drugs are loaded onto fishing boats in the Atlantic and transported to Europe.

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