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Raiders of the lost narc: Police board abandoned narco submarine 'ghost ship' found off Spain - a day after drug criminals' underwater vessel with corpses on board was discovered off Colombia
Police have boarded an abandoned narco submarine 'ghost ship' found off Spain's coast - a day after another underwater vessel was discovered with corpses on board off the coast of Colombia.
The 50ft semi-submersible was spotted sinking in Vilagarcia de Arousa, off the coast of Spain's northern Pontevedra province in the Galicia region, on Monday.
Footage shows only the bow of the craft emerging from the waves and authorities inspecting the vessel, which was in an almost vertical position.
It is unclear if there are still narcotics on board or if it was sunk deliberately after cargo was unloaded.
The Civil Guard said: 'Our colleagues at the GEAS (Special Group of Underwater Activities) are trying to retrieve it.'
Spanish media reported that the authorities were having trouble opening the hatch to the vessel and were working on bringing the sub to the surface despite choppy waters and poor weather conditions.
Underwater images filmed by divers also show the narco sub below the surface.
In footage taken from a helicopter, boats from the authorities can be seen swarming around the submarine.
In a statement, the Galician local government said: 'The sub-delegate of the government in Pontevedra, Maica Larriba, flew this morning to the area where the submarine was located, in Vilaxoan, in the Arousa Ria area.
'It is also following the operations conducted in the port by the Spanish Civil Guard and the National Police. Work by the Maritime Safety and Rescue Society is also ongoing in the area.'
This narc submarine find comes just days after the Colombian Navy seized a 49ft-long submarine with more than 2.6 tons of cocaine and two dead bodies on board in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.
When searching it, authorities also found two survivors who were given life-saving medical attention on a nearby ship.
Video footage has captured the moment that officers unload the submarine, laying out a substantial amount of cocaine they had seized.
Colombian authorities trying to unravel the mystery believe that the two crew who died may have been killed by toxic gas inhalation.
Spanish media are reporting that the submarine was one of three seized by Colombian officials - with all alleged to have belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11858059/Police-board-abandoned-narco-submarine-ghost-ship-Spain.html
Narco submarine mystery as vessel containing £72 MILLION of cocaine and two dead bodies is discovered off Colombia
The Colombian Navy seized the 49-foot narco submarine in the Pacific Ocean
Two found dead while two others were given life-saving medical attention
A narco submarine containing an astonishing £72million of cocaine and two dead bodies has been discovered off Colombia.
The Colombian Navy seized the 49ft-long vessel - which had more than 2.6 tons of cocaine on board - in the Pacific Ocean.
When searching the submarine on Sunday, authorities also found two survivors who were given life-saving medical attention on a nearby ship.
Video footage has captured the moment that officers unload the submarine, laying out a substantial amount of cocaine they had seized.
Colombian authorities trying to unravel the mystery believe that the two crew who died may have been killed by toxic gas inhalation.
Spanish media are reporting that the submarine was one of three seized by Colombian officials - with all alleged to have belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The FARC was a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group which operated in Colombia between 1964 and 2017 and attempted to overthrow the country's government and establish a communist state.
The group were involved drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and other criminal activities to finance its decades-long insurgency.
It's understood that each narco submarine could carry up to six tons of cocaine.
Narco submarines are designed to travel partially submerged to avoid detection by radar and other surveillance equipment.
They are often constructed in remote areas of the Colombian jungle, and their design and construction involve a high degree of sophistication.
Reports also claim that Colombian troops discovered and destroyed a cocaine processing centre in a rural area near the northern city of Santa Marta. It is believed they seized a further two tons of cocaine there.
Colombia's Ministry of National Defence said in a statement obtained by Newsflash: 'The Colombian Military Forces, in the course of maritime control and security operations in the Colombian Pacific, intercepted a semi-submersible approximately 15 metres long, in which 2,643 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride were being transported, destined for distribution in Central America.
'Once the illegal device was located, military personnel found two individuals in poor health conditions on the outside of the vessel. Apparently, there was an accident inside the semi-submersible due to the generation of toxic gases from the fuel.
'The two men were treated and transported to a nearby vessel, where they were given the necessary medical attention to safeguard their lives.
'During the inspection of the illegal device, which had a large amount of water in it, two bodies without signs of life were found and recovered. The Colombian Navy, after carrying out these procedures, recovered the alkaloid that was being transported inside the semi-submersible.
'Subsequently, the rescued individuals, the bodies, and the drug haul were transported to the municipality of Tumaco, Narino Department, where they were presented to the Technical Investigation Corps of the Attorney General's Office, which determined that the alkaloid was cocaine hydrochloride.
'With this operational deployment, which had foreign support, more than 87 million dollars entering the financial structures of the narco-trafficking organisations operating in the Colombian Pacific were prevented, and more than six million doses were prevented from circulating in the international illegal market.
'The Colombian Navy will continue to deploy all its capabilities to counteract the scourge of the narco-trafficking structures operating in the Colombian Pacific.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854315/Submarine-containing-72M-cocaine-two-dead-bodies-Colombia.html