MADRID — Spanish police were studying Monday how to refloat a submarine believed to be carrying tons of cocaine, which if confirmed would make it the first time such a vessel has been found to be used in drug trafficking in the country.
The submarine was intercepted Sunday in an inlet in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, according to an official from the government’s office in the province of Pontevedra.
Galician inlets have long been used by smugglers bringing cocaine by sea from South America into Europe.
