50m cocaine haul found on British beaches

Cocaine with a street value of more than 50 million pound (59 million euros, USD 62 million) washed up on two beaches in England, British officials tasked with disrupting organised crime announced on Friday.

The drugs - 360 kilos (794 pounds) - were in holdalls found at Hopton-on-Sea on Thursday and Caister-on-Sea on Friday, villages on either side of Great Yarmouth, a major port, in Norfolk, the National Crime Agency said.

A member of the public spotted the bags and police are now looking for more that could be in the area.

"This is obviously a substantial seizure of class A drugs, and its loss will represent a major blow to the organised criminals involved," NCA investigator Matthew Rivers said in a statement.

Two Turkish drug traffickers were jailed in Britain last year after being caught with 3.2 tonnes of cocaine on a boat in the North Sea in 2015 following an international operation. The drugs had a street value of 500 million and it was believed to be the single biggest cocaine haul ever recovered at sea in Europe.