200 searched and 79 arrested at music festival in Maldives
19 Apr 2014, 5:15 PM
Lucy Lovell
Seventy-nine individuals have been arrested with large amounts of drugs and cash after police raided the OTUM music festival last night (April 18).*
Police have revealed that 59 males and 19 females were arrested – with an underage girl and a foreign male included in the group.
The festival, which was organised by The Underground Movement collective, was a two day event on Anbaraa, Vaavu atoll – an uninhabited island around an hour and a half south of Malé.
A source who was as the event told Minivan News that a large group of police officers suddenly raided the island and made everyone lie on the ground before handcuffing them.
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