Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in Taveta, a boarder town in southern Kenya, have arrested 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The immigrants were arrested at the Tsavo West national park. Sources said that they had been trailed for several hours by KWS rangers on patrol after being spotted in the park.

According to the Senior Warden in charge of the park, Samuel Rukaria, the immigrants did not have any identification documents and are a threat to tourism in the region. “We have intensified security surveillance in the park after the al-shabaab issued threats to Kenya a few weeks ago.

The immigrants can do anything and that is why we cannot take any risk with the issue of security,” said Rukaria. He said they suspected the immigrants were attempting to cross the border to Tanzania. “The group was being ferried in a canter lorry when we pursued them but the lorry driver managed to escape on foot and left the foreigners stranded in the park,” he said.

He said that the 35 men in their early 20s could not speak English or Kiswahili. The warden said that they are investigating the matter as they suspect the immigrants were up to no good. KWS rangers who carried out the operation lamented that the police did not cooperate with them in arresting the immigrants.

(Source: The Star)