Colombian police destroy drug smugglers’ landing strips
March 25th, 2010 - 1:23 pm ICT by IANSBogota, March 25 (IANS/EFE) Anti-drug police in Colombia have destroyed six clandestine landing strips used by drug traffickers in the country’s northern province of La Guajira, bordering Venezuela, authorities said.
“According to the advanced investigations … in the north of the country, there is evidence that this corridor is a new route used by drug traffickers for movement of hallucinogenic substances to Central America,” police said in a report Wednesday.
The operation was carried out from the Anti-drug Base in the coastal city of Santa Marta from where commandos were dispatched to the Alta Guajira region.
The destroyed landing strips were located in Uribia and Manaure, some 1,100 km north of Bogota.
There were, however, no arrests made during the operation.
Last week, Colombian army discovered two other clandestine landing strips used by drug traffickers in the same region and later destroyed them.
A government statement in this regard said that both strips were “used for takeoff and landing of small planes loaded with drugs, the destinations of which were North America and Europe.”
–IANS/EFE
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