GUATEMALA CITY – The bodies of three men have been discovered in a jungle in northern Guatemala after the crash of a light plane carrying drugs, said prosecutors yesterday.
The bodies were discovered floating in a lagoon in the Peten jungle, about 600km north of the capital, said a prosecutor’s office spokesman, Juan Luis Pantaleon.
Six packages, believed to contain cocaine, were discovered in the aircraft wreckage, said the prosecutor’s office.
The Peten jungle, on the border with Mexico and Belize, is a known drug-trafficking route.
In September, a plane carrying drugs from Venezuela crashed near an indigenous community in Chisec, also north of the capital.
Four people were killed, including Jeankarlo Meneses, a drug trafficker who had escaped from a Guatemalan prison last year.
Since the beginning of the year, police have located some 30 planes used for transporting drugs, most of them in remote areas in the north and south of the country. – AFP, November 5, 2020
