Minister appeals for public support to flush out killers

Mourners gather at Kurasini in Dar es Salaam yesterday to pay their last respects to eight police officers killed in a Thursday night ambush at Mkengeni Village in Kibiti District, Coast Region. PHOTO | SAID KHAMIS

What you need to know:

  • Sorrow engulfed the Kurasini Police Barracks where the fallen policemen’s coffins were lined up. Fellow police officers, relatives and other people wept uncontrollably.
  • Home Affairs minister Mwigulu Nchemba vowed that the government would pursue the assailants and make them pay for their crimes.