Huge cocaine haul washes up on beach

Adapted from SkyNews

In what is turning out to be Japan's biggest-ever drugs' haul, two more backpacks of cocaine have washed up on the shores of Japan.

The bags were found following the discovery on Thursday of four bags on beaches south of Tokyo by an elderly local resident.

The value of the drugs has been put at around $72m (£44.5m), making it the biggest-ever haul of the drug in Japan.

The first bags were said to have been found fitted with a buoy and illuminated markers.

Reports suggest the drugs were part of a smugglers' haul but a police spokesman declined to comment.

In all, there were 120 kilos (265 pounds) of plastic-wrapped blocks of cocaine inside the bags.

Japanese police seized just 6.6 kilos of cocaine last year, down from 28.7 kilogrammes in 2011, according to the National Police Agency.

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