Cocaine with an estimated street value of £50m has washed up on two Norfolk beaches.

A number of holdalls containing the drug were found by a member of the public on Hopton Beach near Great Yarmouth on Thursday.

Police were alerted, and further packages of the class A drug were found near Caister-on-Sea on Friday morning.

The total amount seized is around 360kg.

Matthew Rivers, from the National Crime Agency's border investigation team, said: "We are now working with Border Force, the Coastguard Agency and Norfolk Police to try and establish how the bags ended up where they did.


Image: Some 360kg of cocaine has been recovered from the two sites

"However, it is extremely unlikely that this was their intended destination.

"This is obviously a substantial seizure of class A drugs, and its loss will represent a major blow to the organised criminals involved."

Detectives believe all the packages have been recovered and extra officers have been deployed to the areas.

However, should anyone find more, they can call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.