Mozambique is sending a team of police officers to Tanzania to find out the identity of the more than 100 armed militants arrested last week by their Tanzanian counterparts.

Tanzania accuses the detainees of planning to set up bases in Mozambique.

“We are going to interact with Tanzania to better learn more about the detentions and the tensions of the detainees,” police spokesman Inacio Dina said.

There have been at least 50 suspected militant Islamist attacks in the north of Mozambique since October last year.

Ninety people have been killed, most of them by decapitation and more than 1,000 families have fled their homes in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado, close to the border with Tanzania.