Italian police found more than 2.5 kg of explosives, a kilogram of cocaine and 14 weapons in a mafia garage in southern the country on October 16.

Sniffing dogs helped the police detect these items during a raid in the city of Reggio Calabria, the operation site of the organized crime group 'Ndrangheta, now considered the most powerful mafia group in Italy.

Under the pile of clothes in the garage was "more than 2.5 kg of explosives with fuse and detonator and a block of 1.1 kg cocaine". Explosives, fuses and detonators "can be used to make a bomb that is very powerful," Italian police said.

They also found two machine guns, 6 shotguns, a handgun, 6 semi-automatic guns, a revolver and more than 500 bullets.

The weapons belong to "a local organized crime group," the police said. They arrested the man who rented the garage, whose initials were G.D.