Johannesburg, May 31: South Africa, which is set to host 2010 FIFA World Cup, faces high risk of a terror attack during the mega football event beginning June 11, according to a report.
“Pakistani and Somali militants are running terror training camps in neighbouring Mozambique and that cells may already have moved into South Africa to plan World Cup attacks,” ‘Sunday Times’ weekly quoted Ronald Sandee, director of terror research group NEFA Foundation, as saying.
“I believe there is an 80 per cent chance of an attack,” he said.
The former analyst for the Dutch Ministry of Defence, provided details of three training camps in Mozambique run by “Somalis, Pakistanis, Indians and Bangladeshis,” the Johannesburg-based daily claimed.
Meanwhile, intelligence and security authorities said all efforts were taken to meet possible terror attacks, but would not provide details.
—-PTI