Dar es Salaam
In a rare security alert, the United States embassy
in Tanzania has told its citizens to take precautions over rumours of impending
attacks in a tourist area of the main city Dar es Salaam.
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| Tanzania's Inspector General of Police Simon Sirro |
"There
are rumours of impending attacks in the Masaki area of Dar es Salaam,
specifically at hotels and restaurants frequented by tourists, and at Slipway
Shopping Centre on the Msasani Peninsula," the embassy warns.
However
it also says it "has no substantiating evidence of the threat or
information on the timing".
Responding
to the warning, Inspector of General of Police Simon Sirro said he was aware of
the rumours and the police are following them up.
"It
is news like any other news, it might be true or false, but we don't ignore
it," he told BBC Swahili.
He added
that the intelligence service had the information since Tuesday.
In 1998,
the US embassy in Dar es Salaam was targeted in an al-Qaeda bombing in which 11
people died.
But there
have been no attacks on foreigners in Tanzania since then. - BBC
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