Secure Ground Transportation Tanzania is a medium risk country with severe transportation risk, and significant crime risk.
Street crime is extensive in all of the major cities and predominantly opportunistic non-violent.
Crimes of opportunity include targeting people carrying bags, backpacks, computer cases, cameras, purses, or items left in plain sight inside a vehicle.
Most of these snatch-and-grab crimes involve unarmed assailants.Assailants tend to operate in small groups, where only one person may overtly take part in a mugging.
If the victim resists, additional members may appear with a knife/machete or, on occasion, a firearm.
Click Here... As identified and reinforced by the OSAC crime and safety report ‘Bag snatchings from passing vehicles are extremely common and can be dangerous, particularly if the victim is using a cross-body strap.Few sidewalks exist, so pedestrians walk on the street; assailants drive near their intended victim, and an assailant grabs a bag and may drag the victim until the bag’s strap breaks.