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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Two 16-year-old British girls carried laptops and suitcases stuffed with $600,000 worth of cocaine in return for a paid vacation, British and Ghanaian customs officials said Thursday.
The teens, both London students, were detained July 2 trying to return to Britain with more than 13 pounds of drugs, said Mark Ewuntomah, a Ghana Narcotics Control Board spokesman.
They were provisionally charged with drug possession and drug trafficking. If convicted, they face at least 10 years in prison if tried as adults, or would serve the time in juvenile detention, he said.
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