The seizure is price at least 126 billion CFA francs ($210 million. (Representative Image: Shutterstock)
The two operations convey to 6 tonnes the amount of the category A drug seized by the West African nation in fewer than three weeks
The Senegalese navy has seized three tonnes of cocaine price at least $210 million from a seven-crew boat moored off the coast, the power stated on Saturday.
An offshore patrol vessel intercepted the boat on Thursday “in Senegal’s southern waters, 425 kilometres (265 miles) from the coast”, the navy stated on X, previously Twitter.
The boat and 7 folks on board have been transferred on Saturday to a naval base within the capital, Dakar, the navy stated, with out giving particulars of the crew’s identities.
“The seizure is worth at least 126 billion CFA francs ($210 million),” it added.
Senegal’s armed forces stated on November 28 that they had impounded a separate stash of almost three tonnes of cocaine from on a 10-crew vessel moored off the coast.
The two operations convey to 6 tonnes the amount of the category A drug seized by the West African nation in fewer than three weeks.
In January, the navy discovered greater than 800 kilogrammes (1,760 kilos) of cocaine on a vessel moored near Dakar.
West and Central Africa have been as soon as thought-about transit route for medication trafficked from Latin America to Europe.
The areas have now change into main centres of drug use in their very own proper, based on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
