Weird news - Dying with a stomach full of cocaine

The drug trade is a very lucrative trade, with the amount of money involved being huge. The difference in price of the drug in the drug producing regions such as Colombia, compared with the price in the developed countries is so huge that there are massive efforts made to transport this drug in large quantities to meet user demand. At the same time, there are a lot of efforts made by the enforcement agencies to stop this movement of drugs. As a part of this cat and mouse game, the drug cartels keep on thinking of new ways to move these drugs. In the past, drug supplies have been moved in through fast boats along the coastal regions, through hiding these items in regular trade, through the use of innovate methods such as small submarines, and in the below case, through using people as mules when they actually carry the drug on their persons.
This method involves taking small pouches of the drug, and ingesting it so that it can be carried in the stomach, and later excreted when their reach their destination. However, this is fraught with a high amount of risk since the stomach is full of strong acids that can dissolve items, and if the drugs are exposed in the stomach, their high concentration will be mostly fatal for the person (link to article):

A Japanese man with 246 packets of cocaine in his stomach and intestines died mid-flight on his way from Bogota to Tokyo, authorities said Monday in northern Mexico, where the plane made an emergency landing. The 42-year-old man, identified only as Udo "N," began having a seizure after traveling from the Colombian capital to Mexico City and catching a connecting flight to Japan, said the prosecutor's office for the state of Sonora. "Flight attendants noticed a person suffering convulsions, and requested permission to make an emergency landing in Hermosillo, Sonora," it said in a statement. "When the plane landed at 2:25 am on Friday, paramedics boarded it and declared Udo 'N' deceased." An autopsy found the man had swallowed 246 packets of cocaine, each measuring one by 2.5 centimeters (about one by one-third inch).