Two men became trapped in a shipping container full of cocaine in the port of Antwerp on Wednesday, the hottest day ever recorded in Belgium. Photo / 123rf
Two men became trapped in a shipping container full of cocaine in the port of Antwerp on Wednesday, the hottest day ever recorded in Belgium.
As the heat rose, they made a desperate call to the police emergency line, Antwerp prosecutors said.
It took officers two hours to find the
container in the huge port, western Europe's main gateway for smuggled drugs, the Telegraph reported.
Guns drawn, police opened the door and the exhausted pair, stripped to the waist, gratefully gave themselves up.
A social media video of the arrests shows port employees pouring water on the suspects to cool them as afternoon temperatures skirted 40 degrees Celsius.