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How State blew up Sh1.3b heroin case as convicts walk free after 11 years

Suspects in Sh1.3b heroin case when they were arraigned at Mombasa Law courts. [File, Standard]

On August 29, 2014, drug-laden MV Busheher Amin Dayrya (Al Noor) went up in smoke off the coast of Mombasa after it was blown by the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF). 

Kenya Defence Forces deployed three naval ships, tugboats, MI-17 Russian-made helicopters, and fighter jets for aerial reconnaissance. 

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