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Police in Nakuru stop residents from siphoning petrol after leak

Firefighters from Nakuru County spray foam on a fuel tanker that was leaking petrol near Stem Hotel along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway yesterday. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Police were yesterday forced to disperse a crowd that had gathered to siphon fuel from a leaking oil tanker along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.

Officers set up a two-kilometre perimeter on both sides of the road as fire fighters poured foam on the spilled petroleum product that soaked the ground near Stem Hotel, 12km from town.

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