4 Oct, 2019 @ 21:51
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WATCH: Drug traffickers RESCUE Guardia Civil agents after they fall overboard in collision during high speed boat chase off Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A GROUP of drug traffickers have rescued the Guardia Civil agents chasing them after their boats collided. 

The bizarre scenes occurred off the Costa del Sol when a Guardia Civil patrol boat gave chase to a semi-rigid vessel occupied by four suspected narco-traffickers.

2019 10 05_hachis_malaga_2However during the pursuit, the boats collided, causing the three police officers to fall overboard into the sea.

Their boat was ‘out of control’ and circling them, very nearly hitting them.

2019 10 05_hachis_malaga_1It was then that the crew of a Malaga Air Unit helicopter circling above ordered the drug smugglers to help the three men.

Following the unwritten laws of the seas, the drug traffickers came to the agents’ rescue.

No one was harmed but the four traffickers were arrested after authorities recovered more than 80 bundles of hashish, weighing more than three tonnes.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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