 MOMBASA: Police have arrested 63 Bangladeshis and a Kenyan in Kenya's port city on suspicion of being terrorists or drug traffickers after an anonymous tip-off, said the Coast Province deputy police chief John Mbijjiwe. Mbijjiwe said Saturday that after further investigations the police concluded all 63 men were Bangladeshi and none of them was Pakistani, as they had earlier said. Police picked up the 64 late Friday in two separate swoops in an upscale area of Mombasa and found false documents but no drugs or material linking them to any terrorist organisation in the two houses they were in, the police chief said. "We are pursuing terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering among other offences. We shall keep you informed as investigations get underway," Mbijjiwe told reporters soon after the arrests late Friday. A Bangladesh Foreign Ministry spokesman in Dhaka said on Saturday that Bangladeshi officials were trying to get details about the arrests through its embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. |