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Couple get married and jailed on same day after flouting coronavirus lockdown rules

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A newlywed couple managed to get married and jailed on the same day after police stormed their wedding for flouting the coronavirus lockdown rules.

The unnamed couple had just said their 'I dos' when armed police stormed the ceremony which was taking place in front of 53 guests.

Footage taken in South Africa shows armed police storming the wedding and rounding up guests. The groom, in his suit, and the bride, in her wedding dress, are then put in the back of a police van.

The officers had stormed the wedding with guns and face masks after a concerned member of public alerted them to it. The 53 wedding guests who witnessed the ceremony were also arrested, along with the priest, and taken to the eMpangeni police station on Sunday, April 5.

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