Mozambique police kills two armed Renamo men over attempt to sabotage a bridge in N7

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Mozambique police kills two armed Renamo men over attempt to sabotage a bridge in N7

11:17 CAT | 19 Apr 2016

Domingo (File photo) / Armando Mude, provincial commander of PRM in Manica province

Mozambique police killed two armed Renamo men that were reportedly caught trying to sabotage a bridge on the N7 in Honde, Báruè district, Manica province, at dawn on Monday.

The pair were part of a group that would have mobilized the population overnight to destroy the bridge in order to interrupt traffic along the highway.

Meanwhile, AIM reports, the provincial police commander in Manica, Armando Mude, said that defence and security forces deployed to the area of Honde to maintain order were tipped off about the Renamo plan and set out to prevent the sabotage, shooting dead two of the group in an exchange of fire.

Both these men shot by police were reportedly part of a group of armed men that mobilized the population overnight to destroy the bridge for the purpose of interrupting the road traffic along the EN7.

Honde is the area in N7 where traffic was interrupted on Sunday at dawn due to a hole open across the road, supposedly by Renamo men also with the collaboration of mobilised population.

The provincial commander of the PRM in Manica, Armando Mude, in a brief contact with the report of AIM in the city of Chimoio, said that the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) had been deployed to maintain order on the ground and that it was where that they were warned about the Renamo plan and so tried to immediately neutralize the evildoers, reads the AIM report from Monday .

In an attempt to restore order, there was an exchange of fire, and the FDS shot dead two members of the group, reads the AIM report.

“It is true. We killed two men who, in the company of other colleagues, tried to sabotage the bridge in the EN7, specifically in the Honde zone. The dead men were caught with two guns. One is young and one adult,” explained Armando Canheze Mude to then add that patrols are on their way to neutralize other members of the group” .

The report on the incident came a day after armed Renamo men dug a hole across the N7 in the same area, destroying two trucks and a light vehicle and injuring one member of the public.

Police spokesman Elcidia Philip said that traffic flow on the N7 was restored on Sunday afternoon.

Speaking in Chimoio, Filipe said: “On Sunday, cars were able to pass along the N7. The crater was being filled. Security is guaranteed along the road.”

Filipe said that security forces would continue to patrol the N7 and would apprehend those responsible.

Source: AIM