HONG KONG, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Customs of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Thursday that it had seized about 1 kg of suspected cocaine concealed in a female passenger's body.
When a 48-year-old female passenger arrived in Hong Kong from Tanzania via Ethiopia in the afternoon on Tuesday, customs officers suspected her to have contraband articles concealed in her body cavities and escorted her to hospital.
The woman subsequently discharged pellets of suspected cocaine weighting about 1 kg.
She was arrested and the investigation is ongoing, the customs said.
Under the HKSAR's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of 5 million Hong Kong dollars (about 640,000 U.S. dollars) and life imprisonment.
