Courtesy: CBS

More than 7 tons of cocaine was seized from boats in the Caribbean in recent days, Colombia’s navy said, as the U.S. continues to conduct lethal strikes on alleged drug-ferrying vessels in the region.

Authorities confiscated about 7.1 tons of cocaine during two operations in the Caribbean, the country’s navy said in a social media post on Wednesday. One interdiction took place 90 nautical miles from Barranquilla, a city on Colombia’s northern coast, and the other one occurred about 70 miles south of that in the Gulf of Morrosquillo.

The cocaine was valued at more than $340 million and 11 people — eight Colombians, two Venezuelans and one Jamaican — were arrested “without affecting their integrity or their lives,” the navy said in a separate statement.

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