Tarkint
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 29 ′ N , 0 ° 7 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Mali | ||
| Gao | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | ML-7 | ||
| height | 301 m | ||
| surface | 23,000 km² | ||
| Residents | 19,082 (2009) | ||
| density | 0.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Baba Ould Cheikh Sid'Elmoctar Alkounti (since 2009) | ||
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Tarkint is a municipality in the Gao region of northeast Mali . The place is about 70 km northeast of Bourem and 125 km north of Gao , the seat of the administrative region Gao . At last 19,082 people lived in the area.
"Air Cocaine"
In early November 2009, an older Venezuelan Boeing 727 passenger aircraft , loaded with presumably 10 tons of cocaine , was found burned out on a nearby unused desert runway. After the unloading, the aircraft was very likely brought down from the runway before it was set on fire by drug traffickers , according to an on-site investigation by a journalist with the French news agency AFP . The first reports still spoke of a crash. It is believed that cocaine was smuggled from Venezuela (via Guinea-Bissau ) to Mali.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cercle de Bourem: Carte de référence . reliefweb.int. Accessed September 18, 2016 (French)
- ^ 4ème Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat du Mali . essonne.org. Retrieved September 18, 2016 (French)
- ^ Cocaine flows through Sahara as al-Qaida cashes in on lawlessness . theguardian.com. Retrieved September 18, 2016
- ↑ MALI: THE ABANDONED WRECK OF THE "COCAINE BOEING" - DANS LE DÉSERT MALIEN, L'ÉPAVE DU "BOEING DE LA COKE" À L'ABANDON . afrikanews. Accessed September 18, 2016