Missing railway workers found – Mozambique

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Missing railway workers found – Mozambique

2:16 CAT | 05 Mar 2021

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Wikimedia Commons]

Authorities on Thursday located the four Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM) workers who had been missing since Monday. a CFM representative in the centre of the country told Lusa.

The employees went missing in the Floresta-Lunza section, in Sofala province, central Mozambique, after the “dresina” (light rail vehicle) on which they were travelling between Inhaminga and Marromeu broke down.

“They resurfaced this afternoon [Thursday], less than two kilometres from the point where the “dresina” broke down,” CFM spokesman Adélio Dias said.

According to the company, a total of six CFM employees were on the dresina, two of whom stayed with the vehicle while the other four left to look for help and a mobile phone signal in the midst of the dense, surrounding forest.

The employees were conducting a technical survey for the implementation of a railway telecommunications system in the region.

A search operation was launched involving aerial resources and the Defence and Security Forces, in light of the fact that that the centre of Mozambique has, for a little over a year now, been the scene of armed attacks attributed to a group of dissidents from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country’s main opposition party.

On Thursday morning, one person was injured in an armed attack on a cargo train on the Sena rail line, in the same province.

The self-proclaimed Renamo military junta, led by former guerrilla leader Mariano Nhongo, is accused of carrying out armed attacks on civilians and government forces on roads and in villages in the provinces of Sofala and Manica, in central Mozambique, incursions that have led to the deaths of at least 30 people since August 2019.

Source: Lusa