Dominican agents say record cocaine stash found among bananas

It is considered the largest seizure ever in the Caribbean nation, where more than five tonnes of drugs have been seized so far in 2023.

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Carlos Devers (C) in charge of communications for the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), speaks next to agents guarding the seized 2,188 one-kilo packages of cocaine/AFP
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Dominican anti-narcotics agents have seized more than two tonnes of cocaine stashed in a shipment of bananas en route from Ecuador to the Netherlands, authorities reported on Saturday.

"During an operation

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