Police in Dar es Salaam are holding for interrogation two Chinese nationals who are suspected to have kidnapped their fellow Chinese woman, Liu Hong (48) who works at Le Grande Cassino.
They have allegedly demanded a ransom of 19,000 US dollars from her relatives in China. The Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commissioner of Police (CP), Simon Sirro, mentioned the names of the suspects as Wang Young Jing (37) and Chen Chung Bao (35). He said the incident occurred on October 23 this year, in the morning at the Cassino which is located on Samora Avenue in the city.
He said police received information that there is a Chinese woman who has been kidnapped by unidentified people. According to preliminary investigation, police discovered that the kidnappers were hiding themselves in Palm Beach hotel and demanding a ransom of Yen 100,000 equivalent to 19,000 US dollars to release the victim.
“On October 24 in the evening, police through the cyber crime unit went to the Palm Beach hotel at Upanga in the city and discovered that the suspects were hiding in room number 9. They knocked the door but the suspects refused to open,” Sirro told journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
According to him, police decided to break the door. But suddenly one of the suspects, Wang Young Jing, opened the door and the police got into the room and found another Chinese man and a woman who had been kidnapped. She had lost her consciousness from the beatings she got and had been wounded in the face.
CP Sirro further explained that in the hotel room, that was rented by Chen Chung Bao, police found two pieces of towels with bloody, plastic ropes and a syringe. They rushed the victim to Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) for medical treatment.
The suspects will appear before a court of law after police complete investigation. Meanwhile police in Dar es Salaam have arrested four suspects including a student of the College of Business Education (CBE) in connection with a car theft.
The suspects were arrested on October 22 this year in the city. Mr Sirro said the police were tipped-off on the presence of a group of people involved in car thefts. The suspects allegedly bought the documents of cars that got accidents and paid insurance claims.
They also took chasis numbers. After preliminary investigation police arrested a suspect, one Denis Gasper Ushaki (25) at Tandale in Dar es Salaam. They found him with scraps of a Toyota Alphad car with registration number T 290 DDM.
“After interrogation the suspect helped the police to arrest three other suspects who have been identified as Alfred Ditrik (33), Venance Avity Bureta (24) and Dickson Valentino Godfrey (23) who is a student at CBE. The suspect was found in possession of a car make with registration number T 368 CSE, a Toyota Passo,” he said.
He added that the suspects admitted to committing car thefts at separate areas in Dar es Salaam. The suspects will appear before a court of law after investigation is completed.