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| Police officers stand guard over seized packages. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) |
Police officers stand guard over seized packages of cocaine disguised as
printer toner during a media presentation in Bogota, Colombia, Monday,
Sept. 7, 2015. Police in Bogota's El Dorado airport were tipped off when
a drug-sniffing dog detected the narcotics hidden in 48 boxes of a
1-ton cargo shipment bound for a company in the Mexican state of
Sinaloa.
Authorities quickly alerted their Mexican counterparts who then
found a similar amount in a flight a few hours earlier to Mexico City. Mona, a drug-sniffing dog, sits after being decorated with a medal for detecting hidden narcotics, during a media presentation of seized cocaine, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Police in Bogota's El Dorado airport were tipped off when Mona detected the narcotics hidden in 48 boxes of a 1-ton cargo shipment bound for a company in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Authorities quickly alerted their Mexican counterparts who then found a similar amount in a flight a few hours earlier to Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Mexico's federal
police told The Associated Press they had no knowledge of a weekend
interdiction. A spokesman who spoke on the condition of anonymity
because he's not authorized to discuss the operation publicly said the
only recent bust matching the characteristics described by Colombian
police occurred a week ago when authorities at the Mexico City's
airport, acting on an anonymous phoned-in tip, found cocaine camouflaged
in 40 sacks of black zinc oxide weighing one ton.
Authorities
in Colombia still need to extract the cocaine alkaloid from the toner
powder in which it was hidden to determine its final weight. — BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)
KUMASI CENTRAL MARKET ON FIRE
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| Central Market Kumasi |
A section of the Kumasi Central Market is up in flames and about 18 stalls have been consumed, Starr News can confirm.
According to Starr News’ Ashanti regional correspondent Isaac Bediako, personnel of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) are already at the scene disconnecting power supply to the market to mitigate the impact of the inferno.
He said the fire gutted the Roman Hill Down portion of the market, which is opposite Solid FM.
Officials of the Ghana National Fire Service are also fighting the fire, but the immediate cause of the fire is not known.
He said the police are also available to protect properties as a few of the traders have arrived at the market to salvage their goods before the fire spreads to the other parts of the market.
Picture Credit: Graphic.com.gh
According to Starr News’ Ashanti regional correspondent Isaac Bediako, personnel of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) are already at the scene disconnecting power supply to the market to mitigate the impact of the inferno.
He said the fire gutted the Roman Hill Down portion of the market, which is opposite Solid FM.
Officials of the Ghana National Fire Service are also fighting the fire, but the immediate cause of the fire is not known.
He said the police are also available to protect properties as a few of the traders have arrived at the market to salvage their goods before the fire spreads to the other parts of the market.
Picture Credit: Graphic.com.gh
