Beira hospital autopsies 11 bodies found on Mount Gorongosa and Macossa

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Beira hospital autopsies 11 bodies found on Mount Gorongosa and Macossa

12:34 CAT | 08 Jul 2016

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Beira Central Hospital, Mozambique’s second-largest public health facility, has started the process to autopsy on the eleven corpses found in the bush in Gorongosa district in Sofala province, and in Macossa district, in Manica province, in the centre of the country, within reports of an alleged mass grave containing more than 120 bodies.

The autopsies were ordered by the Manica provincial prosecutor in the context of an investigation opened in the city of Chimoio, Manica province, aimed at clarifying the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the 11 corpses scattered in the bush.

The process aims to identify the 11 as well as ascertaining their cause of death.

There are women among the dead, A Bola reports, and some of the 11 bodies were half-naked and bore signs of torture.

It was also been determined that some of the bodies were in a more advanced state of decay, indicating the possibility that they were not all dumped at the same time.

The area where the bodies were found is considered as one of absolute insecurity on the wake of military hostilities between Defence and Security Forces and armed Renamo men.

This is the fourth stage in a journey which started with the exhumation of the corpses, and engendered their transfer from Macossa and Gorongosa first to the provincial hospital in Chimoio, and from there to Beira Central Hospital, which has a credible medical workforce.

Source: A Bola