Police in northern Niger have seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine worth around $8.7 million that was being transported in the local mayor's official truck, two police sources said on Monday.
The mayor and his driver, who were in the vehicle at the time, were arrested with 199 bricks of cocaine at a checkpoint on the road heading north out of the desert trading hub of Agadez on Sunday, the sources said.A statement from Niger's Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking confirmed that there had been a record seizure of more than 440 pounds of cocaine in Agadez but did not give details.
Cocaine worth $44 million found in onion rings cargo at UK borderWest Africa -- most often a transit route for illegal drugs on the way from South America to Europe -- has registered a series of record busts in recent years.Senegal seized more than two tons of pure cocaine from a ship off its Atlantic coast in October, and Gambian authorities seized nearly three tons last January from a shipment originating in Ecuador.Read MoreAfter 16.
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