One person is dead and nine other suspected
terrorists in police custody following a security operation in Morgoro,
Tanzania.
Acting on a tip, Morogoro Regional Police
Commander Leonard Paul says officers attempted to stop the vehicle of one of
the suspects they had been following.
When the suspect attempted to flee, police
shot him in the foot.
Members of the public, who were in the area
at the time, then attacked the wounded suspect, lynched him then and set him on
fire.
Police then raided the Sun Mosque in Kidatu
division, Kilombero District and found 9 suspects hiding with explosives,
military uniforms, weapons, and a black flag iconic to the terrorist group Al
Shabab.
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| Police display dynamite found during the raid at Sun Mosque |
Police have identified the suspect killed as
Hamad Makwendo from Manyasini Ruaha and believe he was hosting the other nine
suspects later found at the mosque.
This is just the most recent development in ongoing
terrorism threats inside Tanzania.
In February this year, a military officer was
killed and five others wounded in a series of terrorist linked shoot-outs with
a heavily armed group in Tanga.
And earlier this month, suspected terrorists
ambushed three police officers at the Kilwa roadblock on the Coast Region killing
two and wounding another.