Police seize drugs from 93 countries worldwide: Interpol

Police seize drugs from 93 countries worldwide: Interpol

Coordinated police raids in 93 countries have netted more than 55 tons of drugs including a cocaine, heroin and millions of synthetic drug pills, Interpol said.

The swoops included cocaine stashed in a steamroller on a ship about to leave Brazil for Ivory Coast.

Also seized was an ecstasy lab in a Dutch house and, in the Middle East, captagon pills, which are popular in that region.

The Interpol organization said 1,300 people in all were arrested in an operation codenamed Lionfish, and which took place between September 17 and October 8.

Other swoops in southeast Asia netted 18 million tablets of Yaba, a synthetic substance sometimes called the “madness drug”.

Interpol is based in the French city of Lyon.

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