Italian police say they have seized a shipment of more than 2,700kg of cocaine hidden in two refrigerated containers carrying bananas, shipped by sea from Ecuador.<br /><br />The police said on Tuesday 16 May that the drug could have brought traffickers more than 800 million euros ($900 million) in street sales.<br /><br />Two containers which arrived at the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria drew the attention of officers.<br /><br />Investigators then used scanning machines and a sniffer dog named Joel to uncover the drugs packaged in the shipment.
