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Container held bananas from Panama

Cocaine shipment discovered underwater near container at Kent's Sheerness Port

A haul of cocaine worth £10 million has been seized after divers found it underwater off the coast of Kent. The drugs, with a weight of 137 kg, were discovered by the Border Force National Deep Rummage Team in four large North Face holdalls at Sheerness Port on 14 October.

The drugs were hidden inside a shipping container that was Panama-registered and transporting bananas to the Netherlands. The NCA is now working with the authorities in both countries to trace the source of the cocaine. It is one of two underwater concealments of class A drugs ever to be discovered off the UK coast.

The Border Force team were assisted by specialist Met Police divers, who had to work in very poor conditions.


Source: news.sky.com

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