Mexican navy nabs drug-laden homemade submarine

The Mexican navy has seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast.

The 10-metre makeshift submarine had a crew of four, and the vessel was detected about 320km off the southern state of Oaxaca. The four crew were taken into custody without resistance, and were later flown by helicopter to the city of Huatulco. The crewmembers said that they were fishermen who were forced to become drug mules when drug traffickers threatened to harm their families. “We didn’t know what was on board because we never saw it. It was sealed,” one of the crew, Jose Felix Enriquez was quoted in CNN. The Mexican navy said it was still determining how much cocaine was on board. The submarine was towed to a military base at Santa Cruz de Huatulco Bay.
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