It's a bust! Woman carrying 1.5kg cocaine in her breast implants held at Colombia airport

A female drug mule was arrested carrying 1.5kg of liquid cocaine in her breast implants as she tried to board a flight from the Colombian capital to Barcelona in Spain.

Paola Deyanira Sabillon, from Honduras, aroused suspicion with her apparent nervousness in the security line at El Dorado international airport in Bogota on Friday, airport police said.

Police colonel Diego Rosero said the 22-year-old woman was searched and X-ray scans revealed she had undergone recent surgery on her breasts.

She then confessed that an unknown substance had been implanted which she was meant to take to Barcelona, Rosero added.

Sabillon was arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs.

Authorities said a preliminary investigation showed the surgery took place at an illegal clinic in Pereira, western Colombia.

The implants were removed at a Bogota hospital where Sabillon was also being treated for an infection.

Some 300 tonnes of cocaine are produced every year in Colombia, long a hub for drug production and trafficking to Europe. West African countries are often used as a stopover.

As of 2013 Colombia was the world's largest cocaine producer but has since been displaced by Peru, despite efforts by the military to crack down on the trade.