{A Tanzania woman identified as Pamela David Kiritta (41) is among two people who were nabbed last Friday in India with four kilogrammes of \u2018fine quality Colombian cocaine,\u2019 with a street value of US 500,000 dollars (about 11bn\/-), ac-cording to media reports from New Delhi.}<\/p>\n
Ms Kiritta was arrested by India\u2019s Narcot-ics Control Bureau (NCB) alongside a Zambian national Thelma Mkandawire (38) at a hotel in Mahipalpur.<\/p>\n
The anti-narcotics bureau says the seizure is the third haul in the past month.<\/p>\n
Contacted for details yesterday, Tanzania\u2019s Head of Interpol, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police (SACP) Gustavus Babile, said he was unaware of the arrest but pledged to make a follow-up on the matter.<\/p>\n
Reports indicates that NCB officials fficials are still searching for a South African national to whom the women were sup-posed to deliver the consignment.<\/p>\n
The Zambian woman is said to have flown to Delhi from Abu Dhabi on a Euro-pean Airline flight.<\/p>\n
A cavity in the bottom of her travel bag held the cocaine, which were packed in a plastic bag.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the woman reached the Indira Gandhi International Airport the NCB team had her under surveillance,\u201d disclosed Madho Singh, Zonal Director for NCB.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOur team fol-lowed her when she left the airport and reached at hotel in Mahipalpur.<\/p>\n
Sometime later, another woman reached the hotel to receive the consignment. Our team stepped in and inter-cepted them both.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials in India said Ms Kiritta told her interrogators that she was staying at an apartment in Vasant Kunj since January, this year and was working on behalf of a man from South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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