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2 women arrested with drugs in Kenya

Xinhua, May 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

Kenya's anti-narcotics police were on Sunday interrogating two women who were arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi with drugs worth 245,000 U.S. dollars.

Anti-Narcotics Unit head Hamis Masa confirmed on Sunday the two female suspects, Peris Anyango Omondi and Christine Awino, were travelling to Jarkata, Indonesia when they were arrested with methamphetamine narcotics wrapped around their groins Friday night.

"We have asked the court to give us more time to hold them as we carry out investigations on them. We do not know if they had trafficked more," Masa said by telephone in Nairobi.

Masa said the suspects' passports showed they are frequent visitors to the area. When they were nabbed, they told police they planned to use Abu Dhabi route to reach Jarkata.

The anti-narcotics police chief said they are investigating to establish if the suspects have more of the drugs in their areas of residence.

The arrest is the latest in a series of others that have happened in the past days. Most traffickers arrested at JKIA are usually on transit. Cases of drug trafficking through JKIA have been on the rise with police making several arrests and seizures. Endi