**German officials say they caught a Thai woman smuggling cocaine in her body, only to find that - unbeknownst to her - she was also carrying a baby.**The 30-year-old woman was arrested at Frankfurt airport. An X-ray revealed 41 packets of cocaine in her stomach, each weighing 0.3 ounces (8 grams).
She was taken to hospital to have the drugs removed. Doctors there then discovered that she was pregnant.
The woman, who said she was not aware of the pregnancy, is now behind bars.
“The young woman did not know that she was not just endangering her own life by carrying this risky cargo in her body,” Hans-Juergen Schmidt, a spokesman for the customs office in Frankfurt, was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
She was arrested last week after arriving in Germany on a flight from South America.