A joint operation between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the South African Revenue Services (SARS) Customs at the OR Tambo International (ORTIA) Airport has led to the arrest of a 21-year-old South African woman for drug trafficking.
This is the eleventh drug mule to be arrested at OR Tambo in a period of two months.
The drug mule was profiled and intercepted as she was arriving on a flight from São Paulo, Brazil on Sunday morning, just before 09h00.
She was taken to a local hospital where an X-ray confirmed that she was having foreign objects in her stomach.
She has already released a number of bullets from her body and is in police custody where police are closely monitoring the release of further drug bullets.
This process is still unfolding.