Japanese man dies on flight after ingesting 246 bags of cocaine

By Semi Turaga

28/05/2019

A Japanese man has died on a flight from Mexico City after ingesting 246 bags of cocaine.

The flight, bound for Japan's Narita International Airport, had to make an emergency landing in Mexico's Sonora state after he began to have seizures.

Authorities said the man died of a drug overdose.

[BBC]

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