Police officials in the town of Semey, located in the East Kazakhstan province, recently announced that they arrested a suspected suicide bomber. Reports on this development emerged on 14 May 2008. The man — a citizen of Uzbekistan who has been living in Kazakhstan for three years — was strapped with live explosives when he was arrested along with two other passengers following a routine traffic stop. The explosives were defused, but officials have not yet been able to determine the motives and/or targets for the potential attack. No further information is available.