106 cocaine capsules found in woman's stomach

Indian police used laxatives for several days to retrieve 106 cocaine capsules worth some $900,000 from the stomach of a Brazilian woman who tried to smuggle them into the country, officials said Monday.

The 28-year-old woman and the capsules were presented to a New Delhi court which remanded her in the city's Tihar jail.

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The woman was held on May 14 after she arrived at Delhi airport from Sao Paulo, according to Vishwa Vijay, a Narcotics Control Bureau superintendent.