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26 August 2026

'I thought this could be a human body': Fisherman finds cocaine worth millions

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'I thought this could be a human body': Fisherman finds cocaine worth millions

A fisherman from a remote island in the Cook Islands says he feared for his life after a routine reef fishing trip led to the discovery of a mysterious package containing cocaine worth millions of dollars in street value.

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