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The organisation Anti-Raptos Beira has announced on its Facebook page the release of two kidnap victims in Mozambique.
“Our university student is back with her family after three weeks in captivity. We wish you strength and courage, Safiyah! Stop the kidnappings!” – reads a post from a few hours ago
Meanwhile, on Monday (06-06), a post on the same Facebook page read: “Bottle Store owner kidnapped in Maputo has been released.”
No further details were provided.
19-year-old student Safiyah Firoz was kidnapped at gunpoint just outside the Catholic University in Ponta Gea, Beira, on 19 May 2022.
Businessman Bharat Kumar was kidnapped on 12 February 22 inside the bottle store he owns in downtown Maputo, with footage from security videos showing the perpetrators entering the shop and forcibly dragging him away.
The dates when each of these victims were released are not clear.
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The commander-in-chief of the Mozambican police had said on 25 May day that five persons who had been kidnapped in the first quarter of this year in the country were still in captivity and urged the corporation to work more with the communities for information on suspicious residences.
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