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Liputan6.com, La Paz: At least six people were killed, including three citizens of Serbia, following a shooting allegedly involving a gang of drug smugglers in the city of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia. Said the local police, Saturday (15 / 5) local time.

According to police, they had found six bodies with bullet holes after a shooting on Friday nights ago. All three other corpses were identified as citizens of Bolivia. Four other people were injured in the clash.

"We think the people who died in a confrontation associated with drug smuggling," he conveyed the source of the Special Police Unit Antinarkotik Bolivia, told Reuters.

After Colombia and Peru, Bolivia is producing koca leaf, the raw material for making cocaine, world number three. Bolivia is also one of the world's major producer of marijuana. (ANS / Ant)