Sicily cocaine haul: Italian police seize two tonnes of cocaine floating in the sea

Video caption, Watch: Two tonnes of cocaine found floating in the sea off Sicily

Italian police have seized around two tonnes (2,000kg) of cocaine that was found floating off the coast of Sicily, in one of the country's largest ever finds of illegal drugs.

Some 70 waterproof packages were found held together by fishing nets and equipped with a tracking device.

Police put the haul's street value at more than 鈧400m ($440m).

Officers believe the drugs were dumped at sea by a cargo ship in order to be recovered later.

The packages, made up of around 1,600 bricks of drugs, were spotted by a navy surveillance plane, police said.

Image source, EPA

Image caption, Italian police believe the drugs were dumped, with the plan to retrieve them later