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Covid-19: Police intercept trucks, arrest driver and torch miraa in Tana River

A truck driver was on Tuesday arrested after being intercepted ferrying miraa from Meru to Lamu county despite a directive banning the same in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Police and Tana River county officials intercepted the trucks which were transporting the miraa, arrested the driver before torching the miraa as members of the public watched.  

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