JOHANNESBURG – The US authorities has acquired info that terrorist teams are planning to hold out assaults towards locations the place its residents congregate in purchasing areas in South Africa, its embassy stated on Saturday.
“This info comes towards the backdrop of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s public name for its adherents to hold out terrorist assaults globally in the course of the upcoming month of Ramadan,” it stated in a press release posted on its web site.
It singled out up-market purchasing areas and malls within the business hub of Johannesburg and Cape City, extensively considered South Africa’s tourism capital, as the primary goal areas.
South African police declined to remark and stated they have been learning the US embassy assertion.
Final September, the US additionally warned its residents of a attainable assault by “extremists” towards its pursuits in South Africa, a secure democracy seldom related to Islamist militancy.
The embassy and consulates in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape City closed for a number of days in 2009 after what US officers described as a “particular” menace to diplomatic missions in South Africa.