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8:02 CAT | 20 Nov 2017
File photo / A view of Beira
The Mozambican police have caught two of the three people who on Thursday stole over 720,000 meticais (about 11,800 US dollars) at the entrance to a commercial bank in the central city of Beira.
The gang attacked a woman named Zarina Mariana Gildo, a worker of the company Ferrox, at about 07.00 in the morning, as she stood outside the Beira branch of Banco Unico waiting for it to open so that she could deposit the money.
According to a report on the independent television station STV, the police were able to track the gang down in the neighbourhood of Munhava on Friday. In the ensuring exchange of gunfire, police shot two of the gang, Stelio Jorge and Rachide Alberto. One of the policemen was hit in the right thigh in the shootout, and a stray bullet hit a passer-by. (It is not clear whether that bullet was fired by the bandits or the police).
The injured are all being treated in hospital, and one of the bandits underwent surgery. The whereabouts of the third member of the gang are not so far known.
Source: AIM / Miramar
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