Mozambique: Murder victim in Matola was senior police officer – AIM report

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Mozambique: Murder victim in Matola was senior police officer – AIM report

6:07 CAT | 17 Jun 2025

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The General Command of the Mozambican Police Force (PRM) on Sunday confirmed that a man shot dead on Wednesday night in Nkobe neighbourhood, in the southern municipality of Matola, was a senior police office – something that the police had initially refused to admit.

The murdered man was Carlos Rafael Zandamela, who held the rank of Principal Superintendent in the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR – the Mozambican riot police). He was head of the UIR Reconnaissance Unit in Matola.

The assassins pumped more than 50 bullets into the car carrying Zandamela. Shortly after the murder, the fact that a police office had been killed was all over Mozambican social media, but the General Command did not confirm this until Sunday, even though Zandamela was buried with full police honours on Friday.

The identity of the assassins is not yet known, and the motive for the murder is also unknown. The Sunday police statement attacked the Mozambican media for its insistence on knowing the identity of the victim – the police were annoyed that the media was doing its job, and that it refused to cooperate in deceiving the public.

Source: AIM