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Uruguay seizes 6 tons of cocaine worth $1B in country’s largest bust
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Uruguay seizes 6 tons of cocaine worth $1B in country’s largest bust

Drug traffickers in Uruguay were hit with a major setback this week when local Naval and customs officers discovered a 6-ton haul of cocaine this week.

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Officials estimated the value of the drug shipment at $1 billion in the European market.

Authorities said a scanner flagged “abnormalities” in the shipment, which turned out to be a total of 4,003 bricks of cocaine – about 4.4 tons of the drug.