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The vehicle overturned twice before landing and no one was killed.
“The driver and another accomplice were injured and police who attended the scene discovered the two together with the bags of mbanje,” he said.
“After discovering the mbanje, police from the dog section were called in to trace the other accomplices who are suspected to have escaped.
“The number of people who were in the car is not yet clear and police are continuing with investigations.”
Insp Chigome said the injured men, who were hospitalised under police guard, were assisting with investigations.
Their condition could not be ascertained by late yesterday.
The car and the contraband were impounded and are at Chivhu Police Station.
Cases of people dealing in illicit drugs are on the increase.
Recently, a Malawian was arrested near Nyamapanda Border Post after trying to smuggle over 700kg of mbanje into Zimbabwe.
Two other men were arrested in Chivhu after they were found in possession of 9kg of mbanje.
Police in Beitbridge last year discovered a two-hectare mbanje plantation and arrested two people, including a village head.
In 2006, police arrested 29 suspects, most of them women aged above 50 years, for cultivating mbanje on more than three hectares of land along Umzingwane River in Matabeleland South.
Online Reporter