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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jamie Barwick

Drug smugglers deliver shipment of cocaine worth £68 million to supermarkets by mistake

Czech police seized over 907kg of cocaine with a street value around £68 million after it was mistakenly delivered to supermarkets hidden in banana shipments.

Workers in several supermarkets across the country discovered powder-filled packages in the banana crates before alerting the authorities with the entire haul seized by police.

Nearly 2,200 pounds of cocaine was collected after the shipment arrived via Hamburg – Europe's second largest port – which had reportedly originated from Colombia.

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