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32 Somali illegal immigrants arrested in Mwingi, Kenya

32 illegal immigrants of Somali origin were arrested in Mwingi, along the Nairobi-Garissa highway

Police in Mwingi have arrested 32 Somali illegal immigrants traveling in a lorry ferrying gas cylinders and charcoal to Nairobi, in a suspected human smuggling incident.

The suspects were in the lorry that was transporting the goods and police say they will be charged in court as soon as investigations are completed.

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