Costa Rica police seizes 560 kilograms of cocaine

Costa Rica's police has seized 560 kilograms of cocaine aboard a livestock truck, the Public Security Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Police said the seizure was carried out late Monday in La Cruz village in the province of Guanacaste located some 190 kilometers northwest of the capital San Jose.

The drug load was found hidden within a bundle of hay in the truck, which was driven by a Costa Rican national and was headed toward the border with Nicaragua at the time the police intervened. The driver also carried 2,100 U.S. dollars in cash and two cell phones.

This is the second load of drug seized in Costa Rica in less than seven days, and follows the seizure last week of 378 kilograms of cocaine that was hidden in a double bottom of a truck in Miramar de Puntarenas, some 80 kilometers west of San Jose.

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