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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tim Hanlon

Moment Royal Navy blows up boat caught carrying £24m of cocaine in Caribbean

A smugglers' boat carrying cocaine with a street value of around £24 million is seen being blown up following a tense chase with a naval warship in the Caribbean.

More than 400kg of drugs were seized from the vessel, which is believed to have come from South America, and three crew members were detained before it was destroyed.

The Royal Navy's Caribbean-based patrol ship HMS Medway had spotted the boat near the Dominican Republic alongside a US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment and an accompanying aircraft.

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