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Police dogs sniff out over 6 tons of cocaine hidden in banana shipment headed for Europe
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Police dogs in Ecuador helped find more than six tons of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment headed to Germany, officials announced this week, marking yet another major seizure of drugs concealed alongside the tropical fruit.
National police were carrying out a routine inspection of banana export containers at the Deep Water Maritime Port in Posorja when sniffer dogs alerted officers to the presence of narcotics, the prosecutor-general's office said in a news release Monday. Officials opened the containers and ultimately found 5,630 brick-shaped packages hidden under the fruit, totaling 6.23 tons of cocaine.
The shipment was destined for Germany, officials said, and had a street value of $224 million. Five people were arrested following the discovery, according to the prosecutor-general's office, which released an image of the drugs alongside gun-toting officers and two police dogs. Some of the bricks of cocaine featured a "911" logo on the front.
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Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment showed that 24 inmates were shot dead by "warning" gunshots as they tried to escape from the overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa early Monday, Congolese Interior Minister Jacquemin Shabani said on the social platform X.