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Nicaragua seizes 590kg of cocaine

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-12-30 13:42

MANAGUA -- The Nicaraguan Navy and members of the US Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday seized  a consignment of 590 kg of cocaine near the country's Caribbean coast.

The navy said in a press release that the drug was found in 20 sacks on  board a speed boat. The boat's destination was Nicaragua's border with Honduras.

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"We had been keeping a watch on the boat for three days before we stopped it," the Navy said.

However, the four crew members of the boat managed to escape to small villages nearby.

The seizure was part of the Nicaragua-US joint operation "Christmas Without Drugs", which was launched earlier in the month in Cabezas Prot, 557 km northeast of Managua.