Renamo member shot in Tete, three others assaulted – report

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Renamo member shot in Tete, three others assaulted – report

11:08 CAT | 28 Sep 2018

Photo: O Pais

On the third day since the electoral campaign began, Renamo in Tete yesterday alleged that its members had been the target of aggression by Frelimo activists, O Pais reports. In all, the party says, four of its militants have been victims of violence since the 25th of this month.

Among the victims is a Renamo activist in his early 40s identified as Aly Momad, who is being treated for a bullet wound to his thigh in Tete Provincial Hospital after being shot outside Tete city’s 5th Police Station.

Momad told O País he was shot by Frelimo’s first secretary in the Mpádue neighbourhood as he was leaving the police station after filing a complaint concerning the vandalising of Renamo material by Frelimo members.

“We caught the Mpádue neighbourhood Frelimo first secretary gluing his posters on top of ours and went to the police. On our way out, the same Frelimo member started trying to punch me. When I ran away he fired two shots, one hitting me in the thigh,” Aly said.

Mauro Monteiro, the clinical director of Tete Provincial Hospital, said Momad was out of danger.

Aly’s shooting happened just hours after three other Renamo members told a press conference on Thursday that they were assaulted, also supposedly by young Frelimo activists.

“We caught a group of young people trying to paste their party’s posters over ours, and when we stopped them they attacked me and my colleague,” one of the guards at the Renamo headquarters in Tete said.

By António Frades

Source: O País