Three grams of cannabis were found in a sock at Lyster Detention Centre yesterday, the National Security Ministry said.

It said the sock was found dangling from barbed wire on the centre’s perimeter fence of the centre. Soldiers at the centre reported seeing a Somali man trying to collect the sock, the ministry said.

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