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| Removed: The burst bags of cocaine after they were removed from the 28-year-old woman’s breasts. She had been forced to carry the drugs by traffickers |
Cruel traffickers forced the 28-year-old Panamanian woman to undergo surgery where several bags of the Class A drug were inserted beneath her skin – much like a breast implant.
She was stopped earlier this month at Barcelona’s El Prat airport, following a flight on Colombia’s Avianca airline, after police thought she was ‘acting funny’.
During a search, they found a blood soaked bandage covering her chest – which she admitted resulted from the operation to introduce the packets of drugs into her body.
She was rushed to a medical centre in the city, where doctors removed 1.8 kilos of cocaine – worth about £240,000- in a number of sealed bags.
A police source told the Vozpópuli news website that her arrest most likely saved her life, as she may not have survived much longer with such quantities of the substance in her body.
He said: ‘She was in a very bad state when she arrived. She said she was not in any pain but the wounds looked very bad.’
It was, he added, the first time officers had ever seen drugs hidden inside the breasts of a woman.
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