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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxNotorious drug lord Pablo Escobar may be dead – but he’s left a bizarre legacy of “cocaine hippos” that continue to cause havoc in his former homeland 30 years on.The Colombian crime boss built up a £24billion fortune in the 1980s and 1990s as his greatly feared Medellín Cartel monopolised the cocaine trade to the US.He used some of his illicit gains to build an illegal private zoo full of exotic critters, including the potentially deadly African beasts.But since he was shot dead aged 44 in 1993, the huge hippos have been left to roam the tropical wetlands around his former luxury estate… and have thrived.Some of the five-tonne animals.

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