TIRANA — Albanian police say they have seized two tons of cannabis believed to have been bound for neighboring Greece.

The drugs were found midnight Wednesday in a small van in Kakome bay, 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of the capital Tirana. A police statement on Friday said the occupants of the vehicle managed to flee after they spotted officers following them.

Albania, a small Balkan country on the Adriatic Sea, is a major marijuana producer and a transit point for heroin from southwestern Asia.