MOMBASA, Kenya, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Police in Kenya have arrested two Kenyans and a Briton in connection with seizure of cocaine haul worth over three million U.S. dollars at the port of Mombasa.
The three were were arrested in an operation on Saturday and were being interrogated by Kenyan anti-narcotic officers and a team from U.S. anti-drug authorities in the capital Nairobi, security sources said on Monday.
The sources indicated that the three were linked to a drug smuggling cartel of the highly valued cocaine from Brazil and had been trailed by foreign and local anti-narcotic authorities for months.
Officers found the cocaine last week while intercepting some 18 containers at Mombasa port which were in transit to Uganda concealed as sugar.
According to port documents, the containers were loaded at Santos Port in Brazil on June 20.
The Port of Mombasa has in the past been used as a transit port for drugs headed to Europe and Asia.
Last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta witnessed the destruction of a ship loaded with heroin valued at 13 million U.S. dollars. The vessel was blown up in the high seas as a sign of the government's tough stance against drug trafficking.
