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Nearly a tonne of crystal meth has been seized by Australian police hidden inside boxes of hollow floorboards - the country’s biggest ever haul of the drug.

Some 903kg of the methamphetamine, known in Australia as ice, worth more than £500million was discovered in a warehouse in Melbourne.

It is thought the drugs were smuggled from China.

Two Australian men aged 53 and 36, have been charged with commercial drug trafficking and face a potential life prison sentence if convicted.

Police are searching for another two suspects in the city.

Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Neil Gaughan described the concealment of the drug inside 70 boxes of wooden floorboards as “quite complex, quite unique”.

Criminals could sell ice for prices 80 times higher in Australia than they could in China, Mr Keenan said.