MEXICO CITY: Mexican federal police say they have found and destroyed about 1,190 acres (482 hectares) of opium poppies in raids in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.
The federal police said Wednesday the poppies were found planted in 47 plots in the mountain township of Leonardo Bravo.
The plots were estimated to contain about 27 million of the plants that produce the raw material for heroin.
The plots were spotted from helicopters, and ground forces were dispatched to pull up the plants.
Most heroin produced in Mexico is smuggled into the United States, which is in the throes of an opioid crisis.
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Mexican police destroy 1,190 acres of opium poppies
Mexican police destroy 1,190 acres of opium poppies
Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the island nation’s coast last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, local media reported on Wednesday.
The warship, IRIS Dena, was hit by a torpedo from a US submarine in the Indian Ocean while it was returning from a naval exercise organized by India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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