Colombia police smash
105 cocaine laboratories
Colombian police on
Sunday destroyed 105
cocaine processing
laboratories in a raid
near the country's
northeastern Caribbean
coast, police spokesman
Jorge Luis Ramirez said.
Police made no arrests
in Operation Jungla,
which was carried out in
the towns of Montelibano
and San Jacinto in the
provinces of Cordoba and
Bolivar, he said. Police
used helicopter gunships,
but there were no
clashes during the
operation, he added.
"We found and destroyed
105 rustic laboratories
which were being used to
process coca leaves with
cement and gasoline," he
said, adding the
produced cocaine was
transported for
distillation in other
areas.
The U.S. government
estimates Colombia has
144,000 hectares of land
under cultivation and
produces some 450 tons
of drug each year.
In a separate raid on
Sunday, anti-narcotics
police found a cocaine
laboratory that produced
3.5 tons of cocaine a
month in Barranca de
Upia, a rural area in
Meta province. No one
was arrested in Meta
either. |
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