India police extract 106 drug capsules from woman’s stomach

    Police in India say they have extracted 106 capsules of cocaine from a woman's stomach who allegedly attempted to smuggle the drug into the country.

    Authorities claim the 25-year-old foreign national had received instructions to deliver the cocaine to a Nigerian national but following a tip-off she was arrested on 14 May at the international airport in Delhi.

    She is reported to have spent the past week at a hospital where she was given laxatives to recover the cocaine.

    The drugs are estimated to be worth 50 million rupees ($734,160; £546,568).

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