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Border officers at Heathrow Airport have made their biggest cannabis seizure in three years after containers arriving on a plane from Ghana were found with drugs worth �4.3 million. The drugs, which weighed around 1.5 tonnes and had a street value of �4.3 million, were found in three separate freight containers filled with fresh fruit and vegetables. Border Force officials found the cannabis in tape-wrapped compressed packages within boxes on the flight from Accra on Monday. After being seized the drug was taken under armed escort to a secure location, where it will be stored until it is incinerated. Marc Owen, Heathrow Director for Border Force, said: �This was smuggling on an industrial scale. It is a significant quantity of cannabis, our biggest seizure of this kind in several years at Heathrow. �The fact we have stopped it reaching the streets of the UK will make a substantial dent in the profits of the criminals responsible. �The international drug trade is a vile business that Border Force officers play a key part in disrupting.� Officers are trying to discover the intended destination of the drugs.