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Kenyan President supervised scuttling of cargo ship including 371 kg heroine
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Aug 29, 2014, proudly gave an order to Kenyan Defence Forces to destroy the "Amin Darya" and 370,8 kg heroine at the center of a record heroin bust in July. The "Amin Darya" was seized July 15 at the port of Mombasa after authorities were tipped off that the vessel may have been carrying drugs. Authorities eventually found a reported 341 kg of heroin stashed in the diesel tank of the vessel. The seizure was hailed as the biggest single seizure of drugs ever at the port. A total of nine suspects were arrested as result of the bust, including six Pakistanis, two Indians and an Iranian. One man died onboard the vessel shortly after its arrival in Mombasa. President Kenyatta was on-hand to view the destruction of the ship from the air. The drugs were also destroyed with the ship. Kenyatta hoped that the public destruction of the ship will send a message to those looking to smuggle drugs into Kenya. The vessel was towed into the open sea by tugs under heavy guard with helicopters hovering above and escorted by three naval vessels "Umoja", "Nyayo" and the new "Jasiri" for the destruction and sank at 4.20 p.m. on a water depth of 500 meters afte r400 explosives blew up. Reports with photos: http://gcaptain.com/kenya-blows-up-heroin-ship-photos/ https://twitter.com/UKenyatta/status/505417507440951296/photo/1 https://twitter.com/StateHouseKenya/status/505338849493786624/photo/1 https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?id=2000133185&pageNo=1 http://www.bordermediagroup.com/2014/07/police-recover-342kg-heroin-seized-ship/
Police recover 342kg of heroin from seized ship
Anti-narcotics officers in Mombasa on Tuesday July 15 recovered 342.67 kilogrammes of heroin with a Sh1.028 billion street value from a suspicious ship seized two weeks ago. The head of the anti-narcotics unit in Mombasa, Khamis Massa, told the press that the officers recovered 341.7 kilogrammes from the 1,800-litre diesel reservoir of the ship B.Bushehr Amin Darya (alias MV Al Noor). “So far we have been able to recover 342.67 kilogrammes of heroin. We got 341.7 kilogrammes from the diesel tank reservoir in addition to the 974 grams we earlier seized," Mr Massa said. He said he believed it was mixed with the diesel in order to conceal the drugs.
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