23 cocaine packs taken out from South African woman

Hyderabad: Doctors at the Osmania General Hospital removed 23 sachets of cocaine from South African woman Mosiea Moosa’s body without surgery. They took out packets weighing around 450 grams. 

 

After conducting a CT scan, the doctors said that seven more packets were in her stomach and intestine. The Narcotics Control Bureau sleuths are yet to question her since she is under medical observation. Doctors say if any sachet breaks inside her stomach it could lead to death. “We are administering enema to get the packets out. A surgical procedure can break the packets and will lead to death. So we are not doing that,” said a doctor from OGH. 

 

NCB officials said the recovered 22 small sachets and one large packet were packed in such a way that it will not break inside the digestive system. The officials suspect that a receiver was waiting for her either in Hyderabad or some other city. 

 

“She could be just a carrier working for an international ring. Her travel history shows that she had been frequently flying to different countries,” said an official. NCB officials said that all the packets will be recovered in another 24 hours and interrogation will be initiated after that. 

 

The 32-year-old Mosiea Moosa tried to smuggle the drugs concealing it in her private parts and stomach at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday. She had arrived in a flight from Dubai. Due to her suspicious movements officials caught her and shifted her to OGH on Sunday.