28 May 2019, 9:00 AM
The Maldives Police Service have denied trashing two homes that were raided in a drug operation carried out in Malé on Sunday.
A video circulating on social media purporting to show damages was “an attempt to obstruct efforts against drugs,” police tweeted Tuesday, posting a video of police officers sawing open a metal door to enter the Pelican house.
Eleven men between the ages of 19 and 42 along with a 21-year-old woman and two 17-year-olds were arrested from the residence in the Galolhu ward of the capital. Twenty-four men were arrested from the Memory Villa house.
Both buildings were fitted with electrical and mechanical locking systems, police noted.
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