BERLIN, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- German authorities seized around 1.5 tons of cocaine in a shipping container in the port of Hamburg, a spokesperson of the customs investigations office in Hamburg confirmed to Xinhua on Monday.
The cocaine, which was hidden between sacks of rice, had an estimated street value of around 300 million euros (353 million U.S. dollars), the German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt first reported.
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