Prison officials in Colombia say they have caught an 11-year-old girl trying to smuggle dozens of mobile phones and a gun into a jail.
Guards became suspicious when they saw what they described as irregular shapes underneath the girl’s sweater.
When they investigated they found 74 mobile phones and a revolver taped to her back.
The girl said she had come to the prison in Medellin to visit her brother, who had been jailed for illegal gun possession.
She was accompanied by a 25-year-old woman who identified herself as the girl’s sister.
Authorities at Bellavista Prison say the two had made it past one security control, where the woman’s identity was checked.
Reports say the girl was trying to slip past the second checkpoint, where visitors are patted down and their bags searched.
It was there that security personnel spotted something on her back and carried out the search, which a guard told Caracol radio revealed “two Blackberries, 72 mobile phones of varying quality, and a .38-calibre gun”.
The girl had the phones and weapon taped neatly to her torso as she attempted to visit her imprisoned brother.
The two are being held pending further investigation.
The girl was taken to the Medellin office of Family Welfare where authorities hope to establish who told her to smuggle the items.
A prison official told newspaper El Colombiano that children are frequently used to smuggle prohibited goods into jail.
According to the newspaper, women frequ-ently smuggle phones, drugs and even knives hidden around their private parts. — Daily Mail.

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