World: Tanzanian Train Wreck Was Done Deliberately; Missionaries Are Booted From Morocco

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Tanzanian Train Wreck Was Done Deliberately Sunday’s deadly train wreck in Tanzania was done deliberately, police in the nation say. The crash, which involved a passenger train hitting a stationary cargo train, killed seven people. Police say the crash was orchestrated so that the perpetrators could steal gasoline from the fuel tanks. Authorities have arrested seven people in connection with the incident including the cargo train driver and the station master, reports the BBC. The crash occurred in Dodoma’s Mpwapwa District.

Missionaries Are Booted From Morocco Five missionaries trying to convert Muslims to Christianity were recently kicked out of Morocco. Attempting to convert Muslims is against the law in the nation and the five women (four from Spain, one from Germany) were caught “red-handed,” according to the nation’s interior ministry spokesman. Authorities found videos in Arabic when they broke up their “Evangelical” meeting. The women were sent to Spain on a ferry. Morocco’s population is predominately Sunni Muslim, but the nation has prided itself on its religious tolerance, reports the BBC. However the government has come under some scrutiny from rights groups who claim those who practice the Shia form of Islam are discriminated against. And in fact, the nation recently broke all diplomatic ties with Iran, accusing the embassy of trying to convert Moroccans into Shias, the service reports.

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