Customs officers at the Czech Republic's Prague international airport seized a record 31 kilograms (68 pounds) of cocaine hidden in the luggage of three Dutch passengers, they announced Tuesday.

The haul on Monday, worth 60 million kroner (2.3 million euros), "was without doubt the largest" ever at the airport, customs spokesman Jiri Bartak said.

Hurricane Irene bore down on the Bahamas Wednesday, churning on a track that could see it slam the U.S. mainland as an even stronger storm later in the week.

Irene packed winds of 175 kilometers per hour, making it a category two storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in its 0900 GMT bulletin.