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The former home of a notorious Colombian drug lord is continuing to throw up mysteries even after its demolition.

A Miami Beach mansion once owned by Pablo Escobar is currently being torn down - nearly 20 years after it was seized from him by the US government.

But during the demolition, workers discovered a metal safe hidden underneath concrete and weighing around 50-stone.

The safe will now be kept inside a bank vault guarded by armed security until the property owners decide to open it.

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Fast-food entrepreneur Christian de Berdouare, who owns the home with his wife, television journalist Jennifer Valoppi, said: "This is real. It’s still locked. It’s very, very heavy. We can’t believe it — now Pablito is my best friend.

"We had left one of the walls... when I started to knock it down, a piece of rubble hit the foundation, the floor sunk and I saw it.

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"It was something gray. I grabbed it with the excavator’s claw, realized it was a safe and started to yell to tell them."

Escobar was shot and killed by police in 1993 but was known to have amazed a huge fortune in property and jewels.

At roughly 6,500 square feet, the four-bedroom mansion, built in 1948. would have been modest for the ‘King of Cocaine’.

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At the peak of his criminal enterprises, he was known to be one of the wealthiest men in the world - after supplying the vast majority of cocaine smuggled into the United States.

de Berdouare plans to demolish the $10 million and build a more modern property in its place.

The mansion has been sat empty since he purchased it in 2014.