A woman has supposedly swallowed 51 condoms filled with heroin in an attempt to smuggle the drugs past airport security.

However, she was arrested on November 6 after arriving back in Canada at Vancouver International Airport. She was then promptly taken to a hospital, reports the Calgary Herald.

Doctors removed 51 condoms from her body, and said that she would have died had she not undergone surgery.

Chief of airside and special enforcement operations Nicole Goodman said: "Ingesting narcotics to evade detection is a practice that is extremely dangerous for the courier, regardless of how well the pellets are wrapped.

"It is a life-threatening situation that requires immediate medical intervention."

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