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September 15, 2006 · about 20 years ago

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The Royal Navy is celebrating its biggest ever drugs bust in the Caribbean after stopping a boatload of cocaine worth up to half a billion pounds. The smugglers set fire to their boat and illegal cargo when they were caught in a dramatic night-time operation off the north-east coast of Barbados. Whi

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The Royal Navy is celebrating its biggest ever drugs bust in the Caribbean after stopping a boatload of cocaine worth up to half a billion pounds.

The smugglers set fire to their boat and illegal cargo when they were caught in a dramatic night-time operation off the north-east coast of Barbados.

While much of the cocaine – estimated at five tons – was destroyed, drugs with a street value of around

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