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Issue 00525 |
July 5 - 11, 2008 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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Gangsters
shoot dead Australian national By Happy Lazaro Marauding gangsters on June 30 shot dead, at point blank, an Australian national at Engosengiu village, Sinon area and made away with US Dollars 1500, his passport and an air ticket. The robbery victim Darren Stratt, aged 36, was a manager of a charity centre known as Food, Water and Shelter established near Edmund Rice secondary school to help orphan children. The gangsters, about 15 of them, stormed into his house south of the municipality, at about 9.30pm tied up its security guard and broke into Stratt’s room. They shot him in the stomach in the presence of his wife Rebecca. The heavily armed thugs, most of them carrying crude traditional weapons, then searched the room where they discovered the money and documents. After the thugs had left, Rebecca rushed her wounded husband to Selian Hospital but died on arrival to the facility located about 20 kilometres from the scene of the crime. Arusha’s Regional Police Commander, Basilio Matei told reporters that Meckfason Joseph (52) a security guard of the deceased has been arrested on suspicion that he colluded with the gangsters in carrying out the crime. A neighbour Gerald Joseph (20) is also being held as one of the suspects. The watchman is reported that he did not raise any alarm when the thugs set in and also he was able to untangle the ropes without any help after the thugs had left the premises. By the time we went to press, Stratt’s body was at the Mount Meru hospital awaiting to be transported to Australia for burial. Incidents of armed robbery involving hordes of thugs, sometimes up to 40 are now commonplace in Arusha and many residents have fallen victim to the prowling bands of armed gangsters. Another person , 57- year old Bernhard Gehrken of German extract, died on May 30 this year after sustaining severe injuries during an armed robbery at his home in Tengeru near Arusha.
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