RIYADH: A Saudi arrested after a deadly attack a week ago killed three people in a packed church in Tanzania has been freed without charge, the government announced yesterday.
“Saudi citizen Said bin Mohsen Al Mehri, who was arrested with other persons in Tanzania after the criminal attack on a church in Arusha in the north, has been freed,” said Prince Khaled ben Saud Khaled, a deputy to the Saudi foreign minister.
“No charge has been laid against him,” the official SPA news agency reported the prince as saying, adding that Mehri was “on his way home to the kingdom”.
The Saudi and three Emiratis were arrested along with five Tanzanians after last Sunday’s bombing, described by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete as “an act of terrorism”.
“There are three nationals of the United Arab Emirates and a Saudi... they were arrested while trying to cross the border” into Kenya, Arusha’s governor Magesa Mulongo said earlier.
Gunmen kill seven people in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Gunmen shot dead four women in Baghdad and killed three men north of the capital yesterday, security and medical officials said.
The women were killed in a house in the Karrada area of central Baghdad, while the men were shot dead while walking on the main road in the Mishahada area, they said.
It was not immediately clear why the victims were attacked. Shootings in Iraq often target security forces or government employees.
Agencies
