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Huge cocaine seizure made in UK

Britain - Police in drugs searches
Britain - Police in drugs searches

British police have made one of the country's biggest cocaine seizures netting drugs with a street value of £13m (€16.77m) and arresting six men.

The cocaine was found after police stopped and searched two vehicles at an unidentified British port yesterday, police in Cumbria, northwest England, said.

Police did not say what quantity of drugs had been seized.

The police said their investigation was continuing and a number of private and business addresses throughout Britain were being searched.