Toilet seats hide drugs in Brazil

Drug traffickers in Brazil are using plastic lavatory seats to transport cocaine.

Rio de Janeiro police yesterday found 12 such seats containing 1kg of pure Colombian cocaine each and destined for export. Investigator Ricardo Teixeira said such a find was unprecedented.

Police found the drugs at a warehouse after a tip-off. Teixeira said more could be hidden in 23 other seats in the batch, which was bound for Angola, from where it would have been transported to Europe. Police were hunting for the smugglers.