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Lee Bullen

VIDEO: Colombian Navy Finds Clandestine Cartel Shipyard With Two Narco Submarines

The Colombian Navy said it seized two semi-submersibles vessels for shipping tons of illegal drugs when it uncovered a clandestine shipyard in the jungle in the Nariño Department of Colombia. (Colombian Navy/Zenger) 

The Colombian Navy says it has uncovered a clandestine shipyard housing two “semi-submersible” vessels and other equipment for shipping tons of illegal drugs in a rural village of a municipality along the Pacific Ocean.

The makeshift shipyard was located in a rural area of Tumaco in the Nariño Department, the navy said in a statement that alleges that the Ivan Rios dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC) ran the operation.

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