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Nearly three tonnes of cocaine with a street value of £232 million was discovered in a South American banana shipment. Border Force officers, tipped off by the National Crime Agency, seized the drugs after they were delivered to a Hertfordshire address. Nine men allegedly linked to the bust were arrested and later released on bail.
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