Smugglers transport cocaine in submarine

Colombians who thought they had seen everything in the war on drugs were treated to something new this year: cocaine smuggling in a submarine.

In images shown on national television, several men emerged from the makeshift fiberglass craft, opened hatches designed to let in water and sent the submarine and its cargo of cocaine to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Even though they had traces of the drug on their clothing, the smugglers were rescued from their lifeboat and, in the absence of further evidence, released without charge.