Colombian army seizes 6.5 tons of cocaine
The Colombian army told reporters on Sunday that it had seized 6.5 tons of cocaine in Baranquillaon, a city on the Andean country's Caribbean coast.

The haul was made at a building materials warehouse in the industrial city in northern Colombia, said General Luis Enrique Paredes, head of the army's Second Brigade.

The seized cocaine belonged to two drug cartels -- the southeastern Valle and the eastern Meta, said the general.

The cocaine, bound for the United States, had an estimated value of around 20 million U.S. dollars on the black market, he said. Two men were arrested during the operation, he added.

Colombia is the world's largest drug producer, exporting an average of 550 tons of cocaine each year, mainly to the U.S. and Europe.