Vietnam ‘arrests seven more from Canada-based exile group’, accused of police bombing and plotting government overthrow

Vietnamese state media reported that police have arrested seven more people they say belong to an exile group based in Canada that aims to overthrow the ruling Communist Party.

The arrests were the latest in a string of crackdowns by the government on local dissidents and exiled groups, including two that it designated as terrorist groups.

The official police newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan reported on Saturday that “Trieu Dai Viet”, or Viet Dynasty, was behind a bombing of a police station in Ho Chi Minh City in June.

The incident, in which two small explosive devices were detonated, injured three people. Police said in July that they had arrested seven people in relation to the case.

Canada-based Trieu Dai Viet, with a motto to “fire all”, “kill all”, “destroy all”, “steal all”, also planned to bomb houses of some local provincial officials but were stopped by police, the newspaper reported.

The details could not be independently confirmed and no comment was available from the group.