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7:48 CAT | 22 Sep 2017
Mozambican police in Zambezia province have arrested 20 people suspected of vandalism linked to reports of alleged “bloodsucking” attacks, a corporation source told Lusa on Friday (September 15).
Popular accounts of people who suck blood from others while they are asleep go back to colonial times and sporadically reappear in some districts, sometimes prompting property destruction and even murder.
Police spokeswoman Miguel Caetano told Lusa that 16 people had been detained in the previous week for vandalising a police post in Quelimane for alleged police connivance with the “bloodsuckers.”
The motorcycle of the head of the post was destroyed in the attack.
The same justification was given by a man detained in Bere district for attempting to assault the region administrator, while in the district of Nicoadala, three people who vandalised homes of alleged offenders were detained.
Earlier this month, a man narrowly escaped death after being found carrying car accessories which locals confused for blood-drawing instruments.
Caetano also revealed that a 29-year-old woman found to be in possession of human bones had been arrested the previous week, and an enquiry was underway to determine the manner in which she had come by them.
Source: Lusa
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