Portuguese authorities on Monday said they had seized a record haul of cocaine from a semi-submersible craft intercepted off the Azores archipelago before the vessel sank in the open seas.
The nearly 9-ton cargo of drugs is “the biggest seizure of cocaine ever in Portugal,” a police spokeswoman told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
Police said officers intercepted the so-called “narco sub” in recent days some 230 nautical miles from the islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
They were assisted by the navy and air force, as well as the U.K. and U.S. authorities, in difficult weather conditions.
The submersible eventually sank with 35 of the 300 packages of drugs it was carrying, the police said.
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