They are caliber 22 for a short revolver-type weapon, according to the Police.
Agents of the National Customs Service of Ecuador (Senae) and the National Police found two thousand munitions camouflaged between quilts at the Mariscal Sucre airport in Quito.
That material arrived at the capital airport via courier from Miami, around 4:00 p.m. on Monday, November 22.
During the controls, the Customs delegates detected the anomaly through X-rays and immediately informed the Police for the review of the articles.
The ammunition is 22 caliber for a short revolver-type weapon, according to the Police.
Felipe Ochoa, representative of the Senae, explained that the controls of the courier before this striking finding.
“It would be to review with the company courier how they pass the controls, because it is not very common. It could have been contaminated from the start or inside the plane; we really don’t know, ”he told the media. (I)
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