Police in Osh arrested six alleged members of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) on March 30, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported, citing law-enforcement sources. Osh Deputy Police Chief Suyun Omurzakov told RFE/RL that police conducted early-morning searches at three addresses. \"At two of them we found the people we were looking for,\" he said. Akylbek Boyonov, deputy head of the Osh region\'s security department, told RFE/RL that police had acted on a tip-off from Uzbekistan\'s National Security Service. An unidentified police official said that police arrested 12 people in Osh and Uzgen. \"Six of the arrested are members of the IMU and the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir party. The six others are being interrogated,\" the official said. He added that \"one of the IMU activists managed to escape after opening fire on policemen as they attempted to capture him in a private house in Uzgen. According to preliminary reports, he may be accompanied by another two IMU supporters.\" (RFE/RL)