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HMAS Darwin finds 449kg of heroin in vessel off Somalia
Australian warship HMAS Darwin has made another multimillion-dollar drug bust. This time it was more than 400 kilograms of heroin from a smuggling vessel off the coast of Somalia. The haul has an estimated street value of $132 million.It follows an even bigger bust of more than a tonne of heroin found in a smuggling vessel off the coast of Kenya in April. Darwinâs captain Commander Terry Morrison said the seizure removed a major source of funding for terrorist and criminal networks, including al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Al-Shabaab. A boarding party from Darwin discovered the 449 kilograms of heroin hidden in 20 bags aboard a motorised dhow vessel 40 nautical miles off the Somali coast on Tuesday. Posted by: Steve White 2014-05-16 |
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