120 kg of cocaine wash up on Australian beaches

Australian police were scouring beaches after mysterious packages believed to contain more than 120 kilograms of cocaine washed up over the Christmas period, Report informs referring to AFP.

A first batch of 39 barnacle-encrusted, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine was discovered on Friday near Magenta Beach, north of Sydney, police said.

Since then, another 85 packages of the same size had been spotted along about 80 kilometers of the New South Wales coastline, state police said.

Police urged people to report any suspicious packages, Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Weinstein said in a statement.