By Sheila Nhancale
Maputo (MOZTIMES) – Police in Mozambique have responded with violence to mass protests against the preliminary election results, allegedly killing at least 22 people over three days, according to a local elections observation group this Saturday.
The deaths, caused by bullet wounds, occurred in Maputo, Matola, Nampula, and Zambézia provinces, during what fugitive opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane referred to as the ‘fourth phase’ of the demonstrations.
The first police killings of demonstrators occurred on the first day of the three-day phase of protests in the northern city of Nampula. Journalist Elina Domingos, from the newspaper Rigor, who witnessed the police shooting of demonstrators, described the scene as ‘frightening’ on the morning of Wednesday, November 13.
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