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7:36 CAT | 27 Apr 2017
Folha de Maputo (File photo)
Mozambican police have announced the arrest of seven people caught stealing fuel from a fuel tanker, the type of incident that killed 102 people in an explosion in November 2016.
The seven detainees, including the truck driver, were arrested last Wednesday night (April 20) by a police patrol that came upon them on a road in the central province of Manica.
The fuel was being transferred by bucket from the tanker truck into drums that would later be sold in the informal market, police said.
The police seized 12 200-litre drums of fuel stolen form the tanker, which had departed from Temane in Inhambane province en route for the port of Beira in Sofala province.
A police source said that combating the illegal fuel trade was one of the force’s priorities. Ongoing patrol actions are cracking down on a crime that not even the tragedy at the end of the last year seems to have been able to curb.
In November 2016, at least 102 people were killed and dozens injured when a Malawi-registered tanker truck exploded during a collective fuel robbery in the town of Caphirizange in Moatize district, Tete province.
Source: Lusa
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