Tanzania On High Alert; Intelligence Inputs Fear International Terror Attack

April 18, 2023 8:20 am46 commentsViews: 296

Following intelligence inputs of international terror organizations are on the plan to attack Tanzania, the nation’s security wings are put on high alert after a crisis meeting recently by the Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee.

Parliamentary Speaker Job Ndugai said to all the members of parliament the security organs are now put on high alert.

Meanwhile, national security debate has been widely emerged after killing of eight policemen recently by gunmen in the Kibiti District.

It is being believed the attackers are hiding in Dar es Salaam.

It is also learned the terror network is gradually gaining a foothold in Tanzania with recruitment, training and redicalization speeding up in the coastal region, Lindi, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Tanga.

Police sources added link has been established between the recent attack and that happened on 5 JUly 2015 when a police station in Dar es Salaam was stormed by armed gang and four policemen were killed. In both the cases the gang vanished with guns.

Meanwhile, gang based in the Amboni caves in Tanga region is being suspected.

It is learned some of the recruited youths are being trained in local camps too while others are being taken to Somalia.

Sources said, “Some are being trained in local camps in the forests and some are being taken to countries with powerful terrorist organisations like Somalia.”

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