Brazil cocaine haul: Shoppers find drug stash in their soap powder box (BBC)

Shoppers in Brazil found they had unwittingly bought cocaine when they opened soap powder they had purchased at a supermarket in Sao Paulo.

At least 80kg (176lb) of the drug was found in the store in the Ermelino Matarazzo district, police said.

Tweeting a picture of the cocaine packages, police said they were “cleaning the streets of criminals”.

Detectives believe the shop, where the soap powder was bought on Monday, is involved in drug trafficking. Read more