Mozambique: PRM confirms murder of UIR agent

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Mozambique: PRM confirms murder of UIR agent

11:57 CAT | 16 Jun 2025

Screen grab: TV Sucesso

The General Police Command confirmed yesterday that the man shot in Nkobe in Matola municipality on Wednesday night, is in fact a police officer assigned to the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) where he served as head of the Reconnaissance Division.

The assault took place on the public highway early on Wednesday evening, when more than 50 shots were fired at the vehicle in which the citizen was travelling. Up until the afternoon of the following day, the PRM Provincial Command in Maputo told the press that it still did not know the identity of the victim who lost his life at the scene of the shooting.

In a statement dated this Sunday and made public in the early afternoon on the General Command’s social media, the PRM confirmed what was already circulating on social media minutes after the crime occurred, that the victim was a PRM agent, complaining about the attacks made on the corporation for not confirming the victim’s identity earlier.

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“We repudiate publications made by some media outlets about the fatal shooting on 11 June in Maputo province, in the Nkobe neighbourhood, of a member of the corporation who was the victim of Carlos Rafael Zandamela, Principal Superintendent of the Police, assigned to the Rapid Intervention Unit-Headquarters, acting as Head of the Reconnaissance Division,” the statement ran.

In the statement, the General Command justified itself by transcribing the justification given by the spokesperson for the Maputo Provincial Command, and ends the statement by extending condolences to the bereaved family.

“At this time of pain and consternation due to the irreparable loss of PRM member Carlos Rafael Zandamela, the police extends condolences, with a deep sense of grief and dismay, to the bereaved family.”

Source: O País / TV Sucesso