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Mozambique: Locals invade health centre, beat man to death over suspected femicide
8:27 CAT | 14 Jun 2023
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A man was forcibly removed from a health unit in Gilé, where he was being treated after ingesting insecticide.
A crowd invaded the health centre in Zambézia, central Mozambique, removed the patient and beat him to death on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife, Mozambican police announced this Monday.
The 52-year-old man was receiving medical care for ingesting insecticide after the alleged murder, Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) spokesman Sidner Lonzo said.
“They lynched him with sticks and stones until, unfortunately, he lost his life on the spot,” Lonzo reported.
According to the police, the man had beaten his ex-wife to death and set fire to her house, making him the target of popular ire.
The lynching is being investigated, but no arrests have yet been made, Lonzo added.
Popular action homicides (“lynchings”) in which groups of local residents take the law into their own hands, are frequent in rural communities in Mozambique. In the same province, a group in May beat to death a resident of Gurué, after accusing a relative of his of spreading cholera.
Source: Lusa
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