Czech shopkeepers find half tonne of cocaine in banana boxes

Supermarket staff in two Czech cities found bars of cocaine inside banana boxes on Friday, police said as media put the total amount at half a tonne.

Czech public TV said the boxes that had been shipped over from Colombia contained half a tonne of cocaine in total.

“Detectives found out that goods from the same batch were also distributed to several other places,” police said in a tweet, adding they were searching these places.

Police said the national drug squad was probing the haul and that they would ask for international cooperation.