Mozambique: Works on N4 resume after a festive season break - report
Picture: Jornal Txopela
At least two people died as a result of a popular protest against so-called ‘bloodsuckers’ on Thursday (October 19) in Gilé district, Zambezia province. In addition to the deaths of protesters shot by Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM), an amount of public property was destroyed.
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The ‘bloodsucker’ is a persistent phenomenon in Mozambique and resurfaces regularly in the central and northern provinces, especially Nampula. Because of it, Gile’s district headquarters was thrown into turmoil and terror at dawn on Thursday by a mob demanding that the authorities stamp out a group of alleged ‘bloodsuckers’.
In an action reportedly organised “in murmur,” the people set about indiscriminately destroying anything in its path, including public service vehicles assigned to the forestry sector. The PRM District Command was also attacked, and at least 76 prisoners set free.
Other administrative assets vandalised include Gilé’s administrator Joaquim Pahare’s official residence. Pahare was forced to take refuge in neighbouring Alto-Molócuè.
The police in due course reinforced themselves and by force of arms eventually restored the village of Gilé to some kind of normalcy.
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