Suriname Police Burn 1,000 Kilos of Cocaine
<i> Reuters</i>
PARAMARIBO, Suriname —
Surinamese police Monday burned 1,000 kilograms of cocaine handed over to them by guerrillas who said they seized it from Colombian drug smugglers.
The cocaine, reportedly taken from a Colombian plane that had landed in the guerrillas’ stronghold, was worth an estimated $40 million.
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