Military bazooka rockets found on public road in Chimoio city

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Military bazooka rockets found on public road in Chimoio city

3:44 CAT | 09 Jun 2016

File photo / A file photo of neighbourhoods Bloco 9 and 25 de Junho in Chimoio

Three RPG 7, commonly known as bazookas, rockets were found on Wednesday morning in the Bloco 9 neighbourhood of Chimoio city, the capital Manica province in central Mozambique.

It is assumed that the ordnance was left there in the early hours by persons whose intention, as well as their location, is unknown.

The munitions were found by local residents on a road leading to the Curva market. They immediately informed Frelimo offices nearby who in turn asked the police to remove the rockets and open an investigation to determine their origin.

Manica police spokeswoman Elcídia Filipe said that police did not know where the munitions had come from but said an investigation had been launched, and would hopefully be concluded within a matter of days.

The RPG-7 (Russian: РПГ-7) is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Originally the RPG-7 (Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт – Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot, Hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher) and its predecessor, the RPG-2, was designed by the Soviet Union; it is now manufactured by the Russian company Bazalt. The weapon has the GRAU index 6G3. The English-language term “rocket-propelled grenade”, though frequently encountered and reasonably descriptive, is a backronym for “RPG” and not based on a literal translation.(Wikipedia)

Source: AIM