Mozambican police arrest fake guerrillas hijacking vehicles

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Mozambican police arrest fake guerrillas hijacking vehicles

12:11 CAT | 22 Oct 2018

File photo: Voa Portugues

Mozambican police have detained three men posing as Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) guerrillas in order to hijack vehicles in the centre of the country, a corporation source said on Friday.

The suspects were operating in Nhamapadza (Sofala), along a section of the N1, the country’s principal highway and once subject to military escorts.

The three men were detained on Thursday in a joint operation by Manica and Sofala police following reports of robberies and the looting of cargo lorries and passenger buses, the source said.

The fake guerrillas swung into action at the same time that Renamo’s interim leader threatened to break off peace talks with the government because of perceived electoral irregularities, Sofala Police Commander Alfredo Mussa said.

The group, Mussa explained, barricaded the road in order to rob the vehicles.

Police publicly displayed the alleged guerrillas on Thursday in Inchope, a major trading village in central Mozambique where N1 crosses with N6 which links Beira to Zimbabwe, and from where the trio apparently originate.

Francisco Simões, the provincial commander of the police in Manica province, called on the population there to exercise vigilance.

Source: Lusa