Colombia seizes largest stash of cocaine ever

President Santos says (C) says this is the largest drug haul in a single police operation

Colombian police have found 12 tons of cocaine in the biggest single medication seizure in the nation's history.

The medications were discovered covered in four banana ranches in the north of the nation, near the courses used to sneak cocaine to the US.

President Juan Manuel Santos said it was the biggest medications pull in a solitary police operation.

The operation is a piece of a hostile against the capable Gulf Clan, a medication trafficking pack.

Police said the medication stash had a place with Dairo Úsuga, otherwise called Otoniel, pioneer of the Gulf Clan, one of Colombia's most unsafe criminal associations.

The security powers have been endeavoring to catch Otoniel for quite a long time.

Police said they had likewise captured four individuals and evaluated that the estimation of the pull was around $360m (£275m).

Over the most recent two months the security powers have seized 20 tons of cocaine in Antioquia.

The Gulf Clan rose up out of the leftovers of conservative paramilitary gatherings that deactivated in 2006 after an administration peace bargain.

The administration says more than 1,500 individuals from the posse have been captured for the current year and its second-in-order has been killed.