Mozambique: Locals barricade N1 over murder, human trafficking allegations

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Mozambique: Locals barricade N1 over murder, human trafficking allegations

12:40 CAT | 20 Sep 2024

Photo: O País

National Highways Number 1, the N1 was impassable for more than three hours on Thursday at the administrative post of Pambarra, in Vilankulo district, Inhambane province. Locals from that area decided to put up barricades and burn tires to demand the expulsion from the community of a businessman who is allegedly a human organ trafficker.

The country’s most important highway had burning tires and tree trunks across the lanes this Thursday morning, in the area of Pambarra, in Vilankulo,, after loca residents decided to block the circulation of vehicles as a way of demanding justice.

The public’s fury arose because about a month ago, a man who was drinking in a bar in that region disappeared without a trace, however, he was found dead last Wednesday, without his genitals and one of his legs.

According to witnesses, the body was found without clothes and with the victim’s phone nearby, but, curiously, “it was not in an advanced state of decomposition”.

The same witness told “O Pais” that there were no signs at the scene that the victim had been killed there. “They took his clothes and kept them with the phone, his genitals and one leg were missing, and they didn’t kill him there, they killed him somewhere else and laid him there, because when a person is killed at the scene, there are signs”, the witness added .

Meanwhile, on Thursday morning, when part of the community was at the funeral of the man found dead, a vehicle was seen in the community carrying children.

Mrs. Amelia, who lives in Pambarra, told our reporter that her son was only saved thanks to the community’s intervention.

“I was at the funeral and they called me to say that they had taken my son and put him in the car, but the community came and hit the car with rocks and took four children out and the people fled,” revealed the mother, who also nearly lost her son.

The man accused of leading the group of human organ traffickers is the owner of a small bar that was set on fire by the community as a form of retaliation.

In fact, the community says that they no longer want the person in question to live in that area, because, according to them, they are tired of this situation.

“We asked him to leave Pambarra, because we are tired of seeing our children disappear. We don’t want to kill him, we don’t want anything, we just want him to leave,” said one of the residents of Pambarra, visibly outraged.

This is not the first time that locals have blocked traffic on the N1 in the Vilankulo district.

In January last year, the N1 became temporarily impassable after locals burned tires and tried to invade the police station to take justice into their own hands against a man also accused of killing people through organ extraction.

Source: O País