The Italian police have arrested a man who was reportedly planning to bring seven kilos of cannabis to Malta.

The man, Mohammed Misbawu, 20, from Ghana, was arrested in Pozzallo on Friday evening soon after he boarded the catamaran for Malta, the Italian media reported.

The police had noted that the man look agitated. He then abandoned his luggage and tried to run off the vessel, but was arrested

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