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Police exonerate owner of yacht seized with Sh.22 million heroin in Kilifi

Luxurious yatch "baby Iris" up in flames in the Indian Ocean, Mombasa. [Maarufu Mohammed/Standard]

Police have failed to link the owner of a luxury yacht blown up in 2015 to the drugs it was said to be carrying.

The vessel, which was seized off the coast of Kilifi, was destroyed on the orders of President Uhuru Kenyatta after it was impounded with heroine worth more than Sh22 million on board.

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