Police say they seized more than half a ton of cocaine hidden in the hold of a river barge

Police say they seized more than half a ton of cocaine hidden in the hold of a river barge near Brazil's Amazon jungle city of Manaus.Police say the 528 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of cocaine was produced in Peru and that its final destination was Europe. It was the biggest drug seizure so far this year in the region.Police say drug traffickers from Peru and Colombia are increasingly using the tributaries of the Amazon river to transport the drug to Manaus, and from there to Europe or the United States.Also on Friday, federal police seized 11 tons of marijuana hidden in a truck in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.