Police seized 8.3 tons of marijuana in Senegal

Senegalese police and customs officers have seized 8.3 tons of marijuana at the port of Dakar, Interior Minister Ousmane Ngom said Friday.

Ngom said the drugs, with a street value of 128 million euros (155 million U.S. dollars), was found Thursday in a container arriving coming from Pakistan.

It is the biggest haul of marijuana ever seized in the country.

On Friday, police arrested a French citizen of Tunisian descent and a Senegalese in connection with the case. Interpol police are hunting for several other suspects.

Antonio Mazzitelli, representative of the UN anti-drugs agency for Africa, said the organization would strengthen surveillance over the ports of Dakar and Accra, Ghana's capital.

Source: Xinhua