The mobile customs brigade of Koumpentoum (est) has seized 91.84 kg of cocaine valued at over 7 billion FCFA francs and arrested two foreign nationals, the Senegalese customs authorities announced on Sunday.
The mobile customs brigade of Koumpentoum has seized 91.84 kg of cocaine valued at over 7 billion FCFA francs and arrested two foreign nationals, the Senegalese customs authorities announced on Sunday.
Road control agents on the Tambacounda-Koumpentoum axis arrested a first vehicle without permission to discover"42 cocaine plates lined up in a cache made in the vehicle's trunk", according to the same source.
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