“If Renamo were to attack, Vale would no longer have any trains ” – Muchanga

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“If Renamo were to attack, Vale would no longer have any trains ” – Muchanga

1:29 CAT | 08 Jun 2016

File photo / Antonio Muchanga, spokesman of Renamo

Mozambique’s main opposition party has denied police claims that its men had attacked a Vale mining company train in Sofala province.

Renamo spokesman Antonio Muchanga said that the attacks and their constant attribution to Renamo were a maneuver by people who gain from the fact that the country is at war.

“If Renamo were attacking Vale trains, Vale would not have trains to run on that line. But more than ten trains per day run. (…) Renamo could dismantle that railway line. (…) This is just another game played by the children of malicious people who want to justify the stationing of armed forces there.”

The attack was mounted on the Sena line in Cheringoma district on a train heading for Moatize in Tete province where Vale operates a coal mine. The engineer was injured by glass from a shattered windscreen.

The PRM commander in Sofala attributed the attack to Renamo and said that Defense and Security Forces had been sent to the area to capture those responsible.

“Frelimo does not want to see”

Speaking at the same press conference, Renamo spokesman Antonio Muchanga reacted to statements by Frelimo MP Edson Macuácua confirming the existence of 11 decomposing bodies under a bridge in Macossa district in Manica province.

“France Press agency managed to find more than 21 bodies, but it seems this does not worry the Frelimo members on the Commission on Human Rights and Legality. This only goes to prove that they know very well who killed [them] and are promoting these outrages in that part of the country”.

Source: rfI