A man hailing from Mozambique in Africa has been held at the Mumbai international airport allegedly with 1.02 kg of cocaine valued at Rs 10 crore concealed in his stomach in the form of capsules, the Narcotics Control Bureau said.

Acting on a tip-off about a drug "mule" (someone who carries contraband) smuggling high-value cocaine, an NCB team apprehended Fumo Emanuel Zedequias at the airport at 2 am on Sunday (August 8), said an official. "During his interrogation, we found that the man had swallowed 70 cocaine-filled capsules. He requested for medical help, so we rushed him to JJ Hospital in Byculla. The contraband, identified as South American cocaine, was discharged from the body in ten attempts, the last of which took place on Tuesday morning," he said.