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Lockdown: Embu residents fleeing Mombasa turned back

Lower Yatta Police Commander Charles Chacha. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

Four buses that had been dispatched to Mombasa to evacuate residents of Embu County were intercepted by police at Masinga in Machakos County and ordered back to the coastal city.

Lower Yatta Police Commander Charles Chacha said the buses were intercepted at a check point on the Kanyonyo-Embu road.

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