The gunman who killed four people near the French embassy in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam last week before being shot dead was “a terrorist”, local police have said.
Investigations revealed that Hamza Mohamed had spent a lot of time on the internet, learnng about the activities of militant groups such as al-Shabab and the Islamic State group (IS), the director of criminal investigations, Camillus Wambura, told journalists.
Three police officers and a security guard were killed and six others were wouded during his shooting spree in the city’s diplomatic quarter on 25 August.
Residents were quoted by AFP news agency as saying Mohamed lived with his mother in a flat about two kilometres (just over one mile) from where the shooting took place.
“I knew him since he was a young boy. There was a time he disappeared until he came back recently,” taxi driver Omary Issa was quoted as saying.
“He was an ordinary person whom we interacted like any other neighbour. I was really shocked,” he added
Source: BBC
