HMAS Melbourne makes fifth drug seizure before returning home

Updated February 16 2016 - 12:39pm, first published February 12 2016 - 10:21am

The crew of HMAS Melbourne, featuring a helicopter from HMAS Albatross, has completed a fifth successful drug seizure for Operation Manitou, seizing about 65kg of heroin from a dhow in the Indian Ocean, taking their haul to close to a tonne of illegal drugs.

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