Update: Senior Renamo member survives attempted murder but in critical condition

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Update: Senior Renamo member survives attempted murder but in critical condition

4:44 CAT | 20 Apr 2016

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Deputy president of the Inhambane Provincial Assembly, António Sautane Chulo, was shot several times outside his home in Maxixe’s Rumbana 1 neighbourhood late on Monday 18 April in an attack similar to the one that took the life of public prosecutor Marcelino Vilanculos, who was shot dead in his car in front of his home in the neighbourhood of Malhampsene in Matola on Monday 11 April.

Senior Renamo member Antonio Chulo has so far survived his ordeal and is under medical care in Inhambane provincial hospital. His condition is considered critical, with one of the three bullets that hit him causing several abdominal injuries and another bullet still somewhere in his body.

The victim is however able to speak and told the press that he was walking about 150 metres from his home at the time of the attack.

Police spokesman Inacio Dina said that the police were concerned to clarify the attack, which was carried out at around 6:45 p.m. by three individuals still at large. The attackers were in a vehicle whose registration is not yet known and were armed with pistols.

Police arriving at the scene “collected two shells of a pistol-type weapon and a bloodstained shirt with three holes in it”.

Dina was also responsible yesterday afternoon for correcting false rumours circulating on social media that Chulo had died in the attack, messaging that the victim had “not lost his life and is out of danger”.

Renamo spokesman Antonio Muchanga said that he did not know what reasons behind the attempted murder.

Antonio Chulo has escaped death 10 days after another Renamo cadre and Defence and Security Council member José Manuel was killed in Beira on 9 April. Two others, including a ‘txopela’, died in the attack.

Only days after the police yet again announced that they were “working to clarify the crime”, the criminals who, also in Beira, had in January tried to kill the Renamo secretary general Manuel Bissopo, again displayed their capacity, in the face of the authorities’ apparent inability to deter them, by killing public prosecutor Marcelino Vilanculos, whose remit included matters relate to abduction cases.This ‘terror’ seems to have subsided in the past few weeks after creating great unrest, mainly in Maputo, in 2015.

Source: A Verdade