Two men arrested in Manica, Mozambique, for trying to sell nephews for 800,000 meticais each

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Two men arrested in Manica, Mozambique, for trying to sell nephews for 800,000 meticais each

6:13 CAT | 01 Apr 2016

Aerial view of Manica

Two men were arrested by police in Manica, central Mozambique on Thursday for attempting to sell their nephews to a merchant for the extraction of their organs.

The men offered to sell the children for 800,000 meticais each after taking them from their family homes, but the merchant reported the sellers to the police, who recovered the children and detained the suspected traffickers.

“We detained two Mozambicans for attempted to sell two children for 800,000 meticais each. These children had been taken from their family homes in the 3 de Fevereiro and 25 de junho neighbourhoods for the purpose,” Manica police spokesperson Elcidia Filipe said.

According to Filipe, the police ” became aware of the occurrence and intervened when the negotiations had ended,” adding that the children, eight and ten years old, were recovered before the exchange occurred.

Also on Thursday, the body of a child with its eyes and sexual organs removed was found in the Nhauriri neighbourhood in Chimoio, another in the string of gruesome crimes against women and children that have shocked communities in Manica province.

In 2012, the Manica provincial public attorney activated a “red alert” as a result of the increasing number of organ trafficking cases after 16 people, including businessmen and traditional healers, were convicted of crimes involving traffic in human organs, usually for “satanic purposes” described as “rituals and illicit enrichment”.

Source: Voa Portugues