Mozambique | Just In: Armed robbers snatch 1 million meticais cash in Tete city – Watch

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Mozambique | Just In: Armed robbers snatch 1 million meticais cash in Tete city – Watch

3:40 CAT | 06 Feb 2024

Photo: O País

Persons unknown seized more than one million meticais [around US$15,600] in an armed robbery in the city of Tete on Tuesday morning.

The victims were a Mozambican and an Indian man, O País reports..

The robbery took place between Independência and Julius Nyerere Avenues shortly after 8:00 a.m..

The incident, captured by a surveillance camera, involved five individuals who parked a light vehicle near a bank branch. The group got out of the car and fired shots in the air right just outside the bank door before snatching a briefcase of money from the hands of a citizen going by the name of Aldon Blaque.

One witness reported that the criminals did not have their faces covered, and that they executed their plan very quickly.

A private company security guard assigned to the bank where the robbery took place said that he did not notice any movement of suspicious people prior to the incident.

Watch the CCTV footage.

Source: O País