The incident occurred with two vehicles of the same make and model (…) bearing the foreign registration plates, confirms the Customs Public Relations Office in a first-hand communication to the APS.
Road control agents on the Tambacounda-Koumpentoum axis arrested a first vehicle without permission to discover “42 cocaine plates lined up in a cache made in the vehicle’s trunk”, according to the same source.
She reports that, in the course of the same operation, a second vehicle containing "40 cocaine tablets were intercepted after a course of just over 30 kilometres".
“The value of the stolen drug is estimated at 7 billion 347 million FCFA. “The two conveyers of foreign nationalities are in watchful eye”, the text says.