BARCELONA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Spanish police said Wednesday they had discovered a major factory producing illegal drugs near Barcelona, and arrested six people from three countries.

It said the lab, in the northeastern town of Hospitalet de Llobregat 'had a major production capacity since, in one single day' for example, 'they had sent 24,000 euros' (37,000 dollars) in profits to Colombia, police said in a statement,

It said the six people arrested were from Colombia, Morocco and Bolivia.

Officers seized 4.2 kilogrammes (nine pounds) of cocaine, 120 kilogrammes of hashish pollen and a 'lot of equipment for producing the drugs,' the statement said.

Police are investigating how the group obtained the unprocessed drugs.

Spain, with its extensive coastline, is Europe's main point of entry for Moroccan cannabis and for cocaine from South America, mostly from Colombia.