South African police say they’ve dismantled a crystal methamphetamine laboratory, with medication price $20m (£15m), found on a farm within the east of the nation.
5 folks “from a North American nation” have been arrested, whereas two others “believed to be from West African international locations” fled the scene, an announcement stated.
Police images present industrial manufacturing tools together with weighing scales and lunch bins crammed with the unlawful drug.
In a 2022 World State of Hurt Discount report, South Africa was described as one of many largest crystal meth client markets on this planet. Its geography and “porous borders” make it a super transit level for illicit medication, the UN says.
In Friday’s raid on the farm in Volksrust, 225km (140 miles) south-west of Johannesburg, the police additionally seized a pellet gun loaded with blanks.
The farm caretaker, who has additionally been arrested, was discovered with three dwell rounds.
Final yr, an identical discovery on a distant farm in one other a part of the nation led to the arrest of two Mexicans and two South Africans.
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