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Flight attendant arrested with 27.8 kilograms of heroin.

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A Kenya Airways flight attendant was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi on Monday (25 March) after she was found to be carrying 27.8 kilograms of heroin.

The flight attendant was arrested

at the airport when she was disembarking from a flight from Mumbai, India. The heroin - reportedly worth USD640,000 - was meant to be delivered to a contact waiting at the airport, however the contact managed to elude customs officials.

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