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Airport officials at Rio de Janeiro's found 50 kilograms of explosives and about 100 kilograms of heroin in a shipment from China.
They have been at the airport for months, writes BGNES. According to Globovision, the cargo was detained at the airport in September last year because of problems with the documents, but just recently the customs officials decided to check what's inside. In the test, drugs and an explosion were detected in place of the chemicals for the production of medical drops.
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