| Cocaine laboratories in residential flats
Residents of Siete Palmas in Gran Canaria cannot believe that their neighbours were hiding cocaine laboratories in the flats. It follows the police arrest of 17 people in the town in an operation linked to the trafficking of the drug on the island. A total of three different laboratories used for the manufacture of the drug were found in Siete Palmas. Local press reports that many are commenting that you never know who your neighbour is. © typicallyspanish.com
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Invasive species threatens mussels
A researcher in Prince Edward Island is looking for help from Spanish biologists to combat an invasive tunicate species that poses a threat to the province's mussel industry. A delegation of Spanish biologists was in P.E.I. during the weekend collaborating with Jeff Davidson, who works for the Atlantic Veterinary College and the federal Fisheries Department. A variety of tunicates have shown up in Island waters over the past few years, and there doesn't appear to be any natural predator or environmental factors to deter them. Although they don't prey on the mussels themselves, the tunicates glom up the mussel stocks and can make them unharvestable.
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Mauritania plane passengers beat up hijacker
MADRID (Reuters) - Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said. As armed police surrounded the Boeing 737 on the runway, five passengers and the co-pilot burst into the cockpit and knocked the hijacker to the ground before beating him up, a police spokesman said. "When we landed at Las Palmas ... we entered (the cockpit) and hit him and knocked him down," one passenger told television station CNN+. The fight gave the crew time to let in security forces, who swiftly arrested the man, the police spokesman said. Spanish police could not corroborate reports from a Mauritanian source on Thursday who said the pilot had deliberately braked hard on landing, knocking the hijacker off his feet and that he had then been jumped on by passengers.
Pilot, passengers thwart hijacker
TENERIFE, Canary Islands -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said Friday.The Air Mauritania Boeing 737 carrying 71 passengers and a crew of eight was hijacked by a lone gunman brandishing two pistols Thursday evening shortly after it took off from Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, for Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, with a planned stopover in Nouadhibou in northern Mauritania.The hijacking alarmed Spanish officials because a trial of 29 people accused in the Madrid terrorist bombings of 2004 had begun the same day in Madrid. But the man's motives were not terrorism; he wanted the plane to fly to France so he could request political asylum, said Mohamed Ould Mohamed Cheikh, Mauritania's top police official."We were afraid.
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