More than four tons of cocaine destined for Europe seized

Authorities in Guyana announced the seizure on Sunday (September 1) of about 4.4 tons of cocaine worth $200 million buried near a clandestine airstrip intended to be shipped by boat to Europe.

“The drugs were found inside underground bunkers in the west, near the border with Venezuela,” said James Singh, head of the counter-narcotics unit of the small country’s customs agency.

Singh said the traffickers dug holes in the ground to hide the cocaine and then covered them with wooden planks, adding that no arrests had been made so far.

In March, Guyana authorities seized half a ton of cocaine and arrested two Venezuelans who were transporting it in a speedboat on a river.