Mozambique: Four injured in ambush in Manica

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Mozambique: Four injured in ambush in Manica

4:18 CAT | 05 May 2020

Photo: O País

Gunmen injured four people, one of them seriously, in an attack against a bus on Tuesday morning in the Muda-Serracao region of the central Mozambican province of Manica, according to a report by the independent television station, STV.

The bus, belonging to the company Transportes Terrestres de Moçambique (TTM), left Maputo on Monday for the western province of Tete, and stayed overnight at Mutindiri, on the boundary between Sofala and Manica provinces.

One passenger, Abul Jose, said the bus left Mutindiri at about 07.00. An hour later, when it was in the Muda Serracao area, it came under attack, with shots fired from dense bush. “One of the passengers was hit in the leg, and from what I could see the leg will have to be amputated”, he said.

After the attack, the injured were taken first to the Mutindiri health centre, and then to the hospital in the provincial capital, Chimoio.

The bus suffered several bullet holes but was able to continue its journey to Tete later in the morning.

It is assumed that the attackers were from the “Renamo Military Junta”, the breakaway from the main opposition party, Renamo, which rejects the peace agreement signed last August between President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade. The Junta’s leader, Mariano Nhongo, claims that Momade is “a traitor” and that he is the true leader of Renamo.

The Military Junta has been responsible for a string of ambushes in Manica and Sofala over the past six months, and demands that the government should open negotiations with it.

Source: AIM