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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

New Zealand police find 3.2 tonnes of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean

The discovery of the 3.2-tonne cocaine shipment marked an historic drugs bust for New Zealand

(Picture: New Zealand Defence Force/AFP vi)

More than three tonnes of cocaine have been found floating in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean by police.

Authorities in New Zealand said the drugs were dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate, but no arrests have yet been made.

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