DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 8(Xinhuanet)-- Armed bandits have pounded on a Zanzibar tourist hotel again within eight days, robbing millions of Tanzanian shillings worth of cash and valuables, according to reports reaching here on Thursday.

Eyewitnesses told Zanzibar police that six unknown people armed with a rifle gun and some knives drove late on Wednesday to the Nungwi Village Hotel in northern Unguja, the main island of the Indian Ocean archipelago.

After overpowering the hotel watchmen, the bandits made away with both cash and valuables kept in the hotel safe.

Though hotel management did not know the exact amount of cash kept in the safe but it indicated that 18 million shillings(about 16,000 US dollars) worth of valuables had been robbed.

On August 31, a group of eight armed bandits robbed the Coral Reef Hotel also in northern Unguja and made away with 26,550 US dollars worth of cash and valuables from the hotel safe.

Up to now no arrest has been made in connection with the armed robberies, according to police sources.

Armed robbery is rare in Zanzibar, which won the award of the best island tourist destination in Africa and Middle East late last year as polled by the world famous tourism magazine Travel& Leisure.

The Indian Ocean archipelago is a part of the United Republic of Tanzania. Enditem