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Hargeisa: Security forces in the northern Somali republic of Somaliland arrested two Westerners on Saturday, government officials said.
The two men were thought to be surveyors of a Canadian mining company and had entered the country illegally, Defence Minister Abdillahi Ali Ebrahim said.
Ebrahim did not reveal the men's identities, but said they "were travelling in a car and are believed to have been surveying minerals in the area."
Ebrahim said the men had had been detained in Las Qorey district, Eastern Sanag region, along with four Somalis.
Somaliland split from the rest of Somalia in 1991 when warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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