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Guns and millions of dollars retrieved at airport in Zambia

Nearly $6 million (£4.7 million) in cash was seized at the main airport in the country of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka.

Additionally taken into custody were five pistols, seven magazines, 126 rounds of ammo, 602 suspected gold pieces totalling 127kg, and gold measuring tools.

According to the organization’s director general Nason Banda, the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) was tipped off that a chartered plane carrying hazardous materials had landed at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport on Sunday night.

The Global Express T7-WW on which the aforementioned things were discovered as well as another King Air B190-made aircraft belonging to a local carrier have since been seized by the Commission.The 10 suspects, one of whom is from Zambia, have been arrested pending additional inquiries, he stated in a press release.

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