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"Narco sub" loaded with 6.5 tons of cocaine seized in Atlantic Ocean with help from DEA, Portugese police say

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Nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine seized from a semi-submersible vessel, police say.

The vessel was intercepted off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula.

The bust amounts to nearly a quarter of the record 23 tons seized across the whole of 2024 in Portugal .

Most of the cocaine smuggled into Portugal comes across the sea from Latin America .

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