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The Colombian Navy has struck another blow against the country's drug gangs.
Off Colombia, she discovered a boat carrying cocaine worth more than $ 68 million.
The navy of the South American country intercepted the ship on Sunday off the Pacific coast of the southwestern department of Nariño.
According to the dpa news agency, the boat is a submarine, the Colombian Navy speaks on Twitter of a semi-submersible - a boat that can at least partially hide under water.
On board the ship, the officials found 102 bags with 2039 packets of one kilogram of cocaine each, according to a report.
The boat was on the way to Central America.
Three people were on board, including a foreigner.
You have been arrested.
Another 2.2 tons seized a few days ago
A few days earlier, the Navy had confiscated 2.2 tons of drugs, it said. Through both missions, splinter groups of the Farc guerrilla missed income of more than 128 million dollars. Boats and submarines carrying drug deliveries are repeatedly seized on Colombia's coasts. The country is considered to be the largest cocaine producer in the world.
For some years now, huge deliveries of cocaine have been intercepted in Germany and other countries, which are smuggled into shipping containers by organized crime perpetrators.
Only in July did customs investigators in North Rhine-Westphalia seize a total of 451 kilograms of cocaine in a freight container.
A year ago, investigators found 1.5 tons in a container in the port of Hamburg.
It was one of the largest quantities ever seized there.
Customs officials presented an even larger find in 2019: At that time, they seized 4.5 tons of cocaine with a street sales value of almost one billion euros.
apr / dpa