CIP Mozambique Elections: 59 shot in Maputo with 3 killed

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CIP Mozambique Elections: 59 shot in Maputo with 3 killed

9:07 CAT | 11 Nov 2024

File photo: Luisa Nhantumbo/Lusa

On the last day of the third phase of the demonstrations opposing the election results, Thursday 7 November, 59 people were shot by police, three of whom died.

One of the deaths was a young man at the crossroads between Avenida de Angola and Avenida Joaquim Chissano. Another was a young man shot by a member of SERNIC.

Public, private and political party infrastructures were attacked and looted or destroyed:

· KaMaxaquene municipal command attacked. Four tractors, a pump, three vehicles, and the command building itself were destroyed.

· The Aeroporto neighbourhood secretariat was sacked and burnt.

· In the Maxaquene C neighbourhood goods of the ONGD were vandalised and looted. 15 bicycles and various computers and mobile phones were stolen

· Property of the OK stores in Maputo city was vandalised and looted

· A Vodacom shop and mast were destroyed.

Thursday was intended to be a mass demonstration with large number of people congregating in the centre of Maputo. The police were trying to stop demonstrators from congregating, and they were prevented from going from Matola to Maputo, and through Maxaquene on roots from outer neighbourhoods.

A video of police tear-gassing peaceful protestors on Av Eduardo Mondlane and in Maxaquene, both in Maputo, is on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwHalPDoiWY

In Matola the Matola Supermarket was vandalised and goods were looted in Malhampsene. In Inharrime, Inhambane, three electricity transformer posts were burned, and restoring them will cost Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) about $500,000. Also in Inharrime, 40 demonstrators were detained, but were released on Saturday. At the end of the day, the district commander ordered that they be detained again and taken to the PGR.

Since the beginning of protests, UNICEF has reacted to the cases of 3 young boy and girls shot. 1 boy shot dead in Zambézia(14 years) and 2 young girls shot in Maputo, 1 died.

I did not see yet protesters caring guns nor live ammunition #FreeMozambique #MozambiqueElections pic.twitter.com/ZPmKbuRlXC

— Cídia Chissungo (@Cidiachissungo) November 9, 2024

7 November 2024, “March to Maputo”

Still trying to understand what police was trying to do here.

Maputo city 📍#FreeMozambique #MozambiqueElections pic.twitter.com/n4i8RApsfp

— Cídia Chissungo (@Cidiachissungo) November 9, 2024