The Guinea-Bissau police seized a drug shipment on Saturday in an aircraft from Mexico and arrested five of its passengers, the security body said.
Between the detainees At the Osvaldo Vieira airport in Bissau, the capital of this West African country, there are two Mexicans, a Brazilian and an Ecuadorian, the police said.
These are found in hands of the Bissau-Guinean Judicial Police and of the US anti-drug agencythis source added.
The security body He did not specify the amount of drugs seized.but said that “it is the most important interception since the beginning of the year.”
Guinea Bissaua former Portuguese colony, It is considered by experts of security as a transit point in West Africa of the cocaine from South America to Europe.
Instability and poverty favour the establishment of drug traffickers in this country.