Australian police seize record 2.3 tonnes of cocaine from fishing boat

Australian Federal Police officers stand with approximately 770lbs of seized cocaine at a press conference at the AFP headquarters in Brisbane (Jono Searle/AAP Image via AP)

Australian police have seized a record 2.3 tonnes of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects’ boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said.

The drugs had a sale value of 760 million Australian dollars (£388 million) and equalled as many as 11.7 million street deals if they had reached the country of 28 million people, federal police claimed.