British forces help make record drug bust at sea
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Over 1,000 kilos of heroin have been seized in a Royal Navy-led multinational maritime forces and counter-terrorism operation.
An Australian warship operating under the command of a Royal Navy commodore and his British team made the record-breaking 1,032-kilogram haul, with an estimated UK street value of more than £140 million.
The heroin was discovered on board a dhow in the Indian Ocean, 30 miles off the east coast of Africa, near Kenya and Tanzania.
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