DAR ES SALAAM, July 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 28 Ethiopian illegal immigrants were detained Friday night in the Arusha region, northern Tanzania after a truck they were traveling in was involved in a road accident, an official said Sunday.
The Arusha region immigration official Dickson Mwandikile said the illegal immigrants were arrested after they disembarked the truck after it collided with another car near Kisongo airstrip on the outskirts of Arusha city.
"None of the immigrants got injured after the accident," the immigration official told Xinhua over the telephone.
Mwandikile said preliminary investigations showed that the illegal immigrants entered Tanzania through the Kenyan border and were in transit to South Africa. He said the immigration authorities were charging the immigrants in court for entering the country without valid travel permits. ■
