The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Felix Mwera
28 October 2008
Tarime — One bandit was shot dead as heavily armed bandits fought with the police in Tarime Town late Monday as police rushed to a robbery scene.
Mara regional police commander Liberatus Barlow said robbers raided a shop and made away with an unspecified amount of money, armed with at least one sub-machine gun.
The robber's body was lying at the Tarime district hospital and had not yet been identified by yesterday afternoon, he said.
It was another incident of armed banditry in the town and its environs, whose frequency has increased over the past few months.
Police are still looking for the robber's accomplices who escaped after exchanging fire with the police, the RPC told reporters.
The incident occurred at 7:45 pm near the main the gate of the Tarime town market at a shop belonging to Charles Gitano (30), grabbing money and other goods like mobile phone credit cards.
The robbers abandoned a saloon car they used to reach the shop, eyewitnesses said.
The shooting briefly paralyzed the township with many people seen scampering for safety after hearing gun shots, residents said.
The raided shop is about 150 meters away from Tarime bus stand police post so the police rushed to the scene and chased the robbers, who opened fire.
Police reports say Tarime has the highest record of crime in the Lake zone, the security situation in the area having improved during the recent by-elections and campaigns preceding the voting.
During the period hundreds of police officers were deployed at the area to monitor the campaigns and the polls, ending on October 12.
With the riot police squad having left after the polls which were characterised by chaotic scenes including stone injury on Rev.
Christopher Mtikila, routine crime is climbing to higher levels.
In Dar es Salaam, Rosina John reports that Treasury Accountant Elisante Abraham Tuni yesterday appeared before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court charged with three counts of forgery and theft of over Sh.
14million, the property of the government. Tuni (45), denied the charge before Resident Magistrate Neema Chussy.
He was accused of stealing Sh. 14,978,990 after forging cheque No. 12593857 in December last year in the name of Francis P. Malima.
The accused has been remanded after failing to meet the bail conditions. The case will come up for mention on November 11.
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