MANILA (XINHUA) – Philippine authorities yesterday seized 14.36 kilogrammes of cocaine at Manila’s international airport from two female Singaporeans who allegedly tried to smuggle the illicit drugs.
In an initial report, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group said the suspects, aged 63 and 39, arrived from Doha, Qatar.
The drugs packed in 341 pieces of pellets inside four cookie cans and two cylindrical chip containers, is worth over PHP76 million, the report added. The items were reportedly detected through the X-ray inspection process.
