Cape Verde`s battle against gangs smuggling Latin American cocaine to Europe has led to a series of reprisal shootings, though it was not known whether the killings were drug-related.
The country has worked with Western law enforcement agencies in its fight including the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration.
Authorities seized 280 kilograms of cocaine earlier this month in a bust in the Atlantic from a Brazil-registered fishing vessel as it prepared to transfer the drugs to a U.S.-flagged yacht.
Cape Verde is an Atlantic archipelago of 500,000 people
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