Cocaine weighing four and a half tonnes, estimated to worth US$160 million, has been unearthed by authorities at an abandoned airstrip near Matthews Ridge in Region One.
The bust by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) followed months of high-level surveillance and intelligence gathering.
The drugs were buried underground and was unearthed Sunday in an operation by CANU with support from the Army’s special forces.
The head of CANU, James Singh, and the Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn are in Region One, for the operation.
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