Sixteen people were arrested when they stepped off a plane in a crackdown on drug smuggling.
Drugs with a street value of more than £250,000 were recovered when police and Customs officers swooped on passengers getting off a flight from Kingston, Jamaica, at Gatwick.
They were arrested on suspicion they had swallowed cocaine packages.
They remain in custody and are being interviewed by officers who searched the plane and found a quantity of cocaine.
More than 20 other passengers were arrested for immigration offences after the plane landed on Wednesday morning.
The arrests were the result of a joint operation between the Metropolitan Police and Customs, assisted by Sussex Police to tackle drug smuggling in the United Kingdom.
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