Japanese dies mid-flight with stomach full of cocaine
Transporting narcotics inside human ‘mules’ is a popular smuggling tactic with drug cartels. – EPA pic, May 28, 2019.
A JAPANESE man with 246 packets of cocaine in the stomach and intestines died mid-flight on his way from Bogota to Tokyo, authorities said yesterday in northern Mexico, where the plane made an emergency landing. The 42-year-old man, identified only as Udo “N”, began having a seizure after travelling from the Colombian capital to Mexico City and catching a connecting flight to Japan, said the prosecutor’s office for the state of Sonora.
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