Pictures: Cocaine In Edible Banana -- See How NCA Bursted Drug Heist

 In a daring drug heist move, a £40m worth of Cocaine has been discovered to smuggled within a batch of bananas at a port on the Thames.

According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), officers of the agency seized more than half a tonne of thedrug on a boat travelling from Colombia, at London Gateway on the Essex coast, South-East England.

It further reported how its team of Investigators intercepted the shipment, on its way to the Netherlands, on Tuesday.

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It was also reported that Hundreds of huge cocaine slabs were found wedged alongside bananas in cardboard boxes.

The agency said the cocaine shipment would have had a UK street value of more than £40m once cut and sold.

Adam Berry, the branch operations manager of NCA described the discovery as a "huge blow" to the peddlers.

In his words:

 "Taking out a consignment of this size will have been a huge blow to the criminal network involved in this shipment, preventing them from making millions of pounds that would have been invested in further criminality.

"Class A drugs are pedalled by gangs involved in violence and exploitation in our communities.

"The NCA works hard with partners to stop drugs getting that far, and making seizures like this demonstrate how we can break that link between international drug cartels and street-level dealers."