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QUITO, July 2 (Xinhua)-- Ecuador's prosecutor-general announced Sunday that 12 Mexican citizens had been arrested on charges of drug trafficking and financing the drug trade, the prosecutor-general's office said on its official Twitter account.
The foreigners "were detained in three buildings with 103 kilograms of drugs and 72,000 dollars in an operation headed up by the prosecutor-general's office in Pichincha," a district around the capital of Quito, it was announced on Sunday.
"The prosecutor-general of Pichinchia is fighting drug trafficking," added the account withpot providing more details of the operation.
In the first half of 2017, Ecuador's anti-narcotics police has decommissioned 47.24 tons of drugs, mostly cocaine.
