Mozambique: Armed attack on truck in central region seriously injures one person

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Mozambique: Armed attack on truck in central region seriously injures one person

8:17 CAT | 16 Mar 2020

File photo: Lusa

An armed attack on a cargo truck on Monday caused serious injuries to a teenager in central Mozambique, several local sources told Lusa on Monday.

The truck was attacked at sunrise, and one of the bullets hit one of the three occupants in the Matenga area on the border between Nhamatanda and Gorongosa districts, near the country’s main highway, National Highway 1 (N1).

“Many shots were fired and suddenly I saw the girl on my side falling and bleeding a lot,” Amadeu Luis, one of the passengers, told Lusa, adding that the driver continued and transported the victim to Gorongosa District Hospital. She was then transferred to Chimoio Provincial Hospital for surgery.

This is the third armed attack in five days in the same area, causing a total of eight injured.

On Thursday, 12 March, a bus was machine-gunned at about 6 a.m. local time (4 a.m. from Lisbon) when it was making the Inchope-Gorongosa route, next to the N1, injuring three people slightly.

On Friday, a truck was hit by bullets fired from a hill, injuring four occupants in an area close to a military position.

The area has been the scene of incursions attributed by the authorities to guerrillas of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) on that section linking the North with Inchope, a junction with the EN6, a busy freight corridor between the port of Beira and Zimbabwe.

Since August, the attacks have claimed 20 lives.

In the area, dissident guerrillas from Renamo, the main opposition party, led by Mariano Nhongo, who rebelled against the party itself, claiming to disagree with the disarmament negotiations of the guerrillas.

Renamo has reaffirmed its commitment to peace, classifying Nhongo as a deserter.

Source: Lusa