Three law enforcement officials and a personal safety agent had been killed on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s financial capital, throughout a capturing that came about on a avenue with a number of overseas representations. The attacker was shot lifeless by police in entrance of the French embassy. His id and motives are nonetheless unknown.
The Tanzanian authorities assured on Wednesday that it was too early to conclude that it was terrorism and that they had been nonetheless investigating the shooter’s motives.
From footagebroadcast by native media reveals a person strolling on a sidewalk, carrying a checkered shirt and a kufi, Muslim prayer hat, white in shade, an computerized rifle in his hand, and visual in entrance of the doorway to the corridor. Embassy of France, the place he was shot by Tanzanian police.
According to Tanzania’s press, he’s a younger man of 29 who labored in mines within the northern a part of the nation. And in keeping with witnesses on the scene, it seems that he “wanted to attack the police”.
However, the PLACES group – which makes a speciality of monitoring jihadist websites – reported on Wednesday night time {that a} media outlet linked to the Islamic State (IS) group had talked about an “attack on the French embassy” in Dar es Salaam, carried out by a person of Somali nationality, nonetheless no claims had been made.
Assessment: three policemen killed, a safety guard as effectively. The head of the police operations, Liberatus Sabas, added that six folks had been additionally injured. It isn’t identified if the killed agent was a part of the French embassy group. Ali Hassan Mwinyi Street, the place the capturing came about, additionally homes the places of work of Russia’s and Zambia’s diplomatic missions. On Twitter, the President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, expresses condolences to the households and calls for a full investigation.
Natoa pole för Jeshi la Polisi na familia za Askari 3, na Askari 1 wa kampuni ya ulinzi ya SGA waliopoteza maisha baada ya mtu aliyekuwa na silaha kuwashambulia katika eneo la Salenda, Dar es Salaam. Mtu huyo amedhibitiwa na hali ni shwari. Nawaagiza Polisi kuchunguza kwa kina.
– Samia Suluhu (@SuluhuSamia) August 25, 2021 The opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency Party has additionally referred to as for investigations to see if there are “major consequences”, in keeping with chief Zitto Kabwe. For a number of years, Tanzania has confronted two distinct jihadist threats: the group’s al-Shabab, primarily based in Somalia and affiliated with al-Qaeda, and extra not too long ago from Islamists affiliated with the Islamic State group of Cabo Delgado, a area in northern Mozambique, bordering Tanzania.
In Nairobi I’m going to Dar from Lusaka and I get into the surprising information concerning the capturing that occurred at this time. My ideas instantly go to the 2 policemen who misplaced their lives and my condolences go to their households and cherished ones. They is not going to be forgotten.
– Zitto MwamiRuyagwa Kabwe (@zittokabwe) 25 August 2021.
