BOGOTA, Aug 29 (Reuter) Six clandestine drug laboratories, each capable of
producing a ton of cocaine every month, have been destroyed in southern
Colombian jungles, authorities said on Friday.

The Colombian Navy said the laboratories, on the banks of the Mira River near
the Ecuadorean border, were destroyed during a counternarcotics sweep.

Navy units also destroyed large quantities of chemicals used to refine
cocaine from the raw coca leaf, the Navy said in a statement.