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Since the drug lord’s imported hippos escaped after his death in 1993, the government has repeatedly failed to tame the booming population

Bogotá (AFP) - The governor of a region of Colombia where a herd of some 150 hippos -- descendants of animals once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- are breeding out of control said Monday he hopes for the greenlight to send half of them to sanctuaries in India…

The hippos are descendants of four imported illegally by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s

Dozens of the invasive behemoths, descended from 4 imported by the 1980s drug lord, are thriving in the region around his former ranch. Colombia wants to ship some of them to Mexico and India.

The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to three tonnes, have been declared a toxic invasive species because they have no natural predator in Colombia and pose a biodiversity risk because their faeces changes the composition of rivers

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch _ descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population

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Steven Semmens was charged at Swansea Crown Court along with four other cocaine conspirators for their involvement in selling the Class A drug.

Steven Semmens, whose 2018 graveyard stunt drew the ire of Colombian cartels, has been jailed along with four other defendants at Swansea Crown Court for cocaine dealing