12:31 | Lima, Jun. 16. More than 33 tons of drugs seized in numerous police operations carried out across the country were burned today, marking a record high for a single destruction process of illicit substances in Peru, Interior Minister Jose Elice reported on Wednesday. The total amount of drugs seized is 33,000 kilograms. This is the largest historical number of drugs gathered in a single burning process, Elice said from the National Police Special Operations Unit (Diroes) headquarters in Lima s Ate district. Let us continue to work as a team, together, and in coordination with one another, to achieve a drugs-free society. We are on the right path, he emphasized.
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