Police in Peru have seized 1.76 tonnes of cocaine with a street value of more than $70m bound for the US and Europe via Mexico, the interior ministry has said. Officers also arrested 27 people when they raided a warehouse in the northern port of Chimbote, about 250 miles (420km) north of Lima in Peru's biggest drugs bust so far this year. The ministry said that the 15 Peruvians, 10 Colombians, one Mexican and one Guatemalan arrested were working for the Tijuana cartel - one of the most powerful drugs rings in Mexico. Peru is the world's second biggest cocaine producing nation after Colombia. Stacks of packaged cocaine were put on display by police and government officials at a news conference in Lima.

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