Mozambique: SERNIC foil attempt to sell three children in Nampula, suspects detained

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Mozambique: SERNIC foil attempt to sell three children in Nampula, suspects detained

6:58 CAT | 27 Aug 2024

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Police in Mozambique have stopped an attempt to sell three children in Nampula, northern Mozambique, and have arrested three people suspected of being involved in the case, a source from the police told Lusa on Tuesday.

“All the detainees have confessed. The couple were going to sell a child they kidnapped in the Natiquire neighbourhood [Nampula city] and two of their children,” said Enina Tsinine, spokeswoman for the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in Nampula.

According to the spokeswoman, the child who was kidnapped on the 20th was rescued from captivity in the city of Nampula, the provincial capital, and there are reports that there is one other child in captivity in the district of Lalaua, in the same province.

“The detainees themselves provided information about the other child and said that the child e is there in coordination with another [trafficking] gang,” SERNIC added.

The three suspects, a couple and the woman’s brother, were arrested on Sunday and Monday, said Enina Tsinine, noting that investigations were underway to rescue the other child who is allegedly in captivity.

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Mozambique recorded at least 38 victims of human trafficking in 2022, who were taken to South Africa, according to figures released by the Mozambican Attorney General’s Office in July 2023.

Source: Lusa