Wizara ya Mambo ya Nchi za Nje ya Muungano wa Falme za Kiarabu (UAE), imekiri kukamatwa kwa raia wake watatu na vyombo vya usalama vya Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania huku waziri wake akilaani shambulio hilo.
Naye balozi wa Saudi Arabia jijini Dar es Salaam, amekiri kwamba mmoja wa wageni wanne waliokamatwa ni raia wa nchi yake ingawa amedai kuwa wahusika hao wanne walikuwa Arusha kama watalii.
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HABARI ZAIDI:
1. Mtanzania aliyeshikwa na kutajwa jina ni dereva wa Bodaboda jijini Arusha, Victor Ambrose.
2. Waarabu waliokamatwa waliingia nchini Jumamosi kupitia Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Kilimanjaro na walivuta mpaka kuingia Kenya Jumapili baada ya tukio.
3. Kati ya watu tisa, sasa kama kumi hivi, kuna wengine kwa jina moja moja ni Joseph na David.
UAE says three citizens held over Tanzania bombing
May 5, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church on Sunday that killed two people and wounded six.
Tanzanian officials initially said four Saudis were being held after the attack on a Catholic church in Arusha in north Tanzania but the government subsequently identified them only as "foreigners of Middle Eastern origin" without giving their nationalities.
A diplomat from Saudi Arabia has been quoted as saying only one of those held was from the kingdom.
"We are following with interest the issue of the three citizens who are being held in Tanzania," the UAE Foreign Ministry of the U.S.-allied Gulf state said on its Twitter account.
Investigators said they were still determining the type of device used in the attack on the church in Tanzania, a nation of about 45 million people roughly split evenly between Muslims and Christians.Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE foreign minister, on Monday condemned the attack, which has heightened sectarian tensions in the east African country.
The Vatican's ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, was attending the official opening of the church when the explosion occurred. He escaped unharmed.
Saudi ambassador in Dar es-Salaam, Hani Abdallah Mo'menah, said one Saudi and three Emiratis had been arrested, Tuesday's edition of Saudi al-Riyadh daily reported."When the attack happened, the Saudi, his three Emirati friends and two Tanzanian friends happened to be where the explosion took place in Arusha," the paper quoted him as saying.
Mo'menah said he was on his way to Arusha, adding: The whole issue is mere suspicion and we expect them to be released, God willing." He said the group were there as tourists.
Two Christian leaders were killed in Tanzania's semi-autonomous, predominantly Muslim islands of Zanzibar earlier this year and there have been attacks on Muslim leaders and mosques.
(Reporting by Mahmoud Habboush and Yara Bayoumy in Dubai and Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala in Dar es Salaam; Editing by William Maclean and Raissa Kasolowsky)
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