A senior Police Officer has said that suspected Islamist militants and other individuals linked to an acid attack on a clergyman, have been arrested in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar islands, reports Reuters.
"Fifteen people have been arrested in police raids on criminal networks," "Among them are suspected members of al Shabaab, suspects behind the recent acid attack on a Roman Catholic priest and unlicensed acid distributors," Zanzibar's police commissioner, Mussa Ali Mussa, told Reuters.
All those arrested on Sunday were Tanzanian nationals, Mussa added.
Mussa did not say what the suspected militants were doing on the archipelago, though he said they were not linked to the acid attacks.
Mussa said prosecutors were close to laying charges against two other men detained in connection with the attack on Britons Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup. The young women suffered facial, chest and back injuries
