Mozambican police announced in Beira on Tuesday the creation of a commission of inquiry into the killing of a police officer and the wounding of two minors by a police officer.
“He fired into the air and the victims were targeted by a stray bullet. The officer in question is being held at the 6th police station in Makuti while a commission set up to find out what really happened conducts an investigation.” day,” said Dercio Chakate, spokesman for the Provincial Command of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM).
Speaking to reporters in Beira, the spokesman said the death of a community police agent on Saturday in the Makuti area was manslaughter, saying the corporation agent had no such intention.
“We would like to formally accept and express our due condolences to the family. “PRM is doing its job to support this family who lost their loved one, as well as the two families affected by this shooting,” he said.
An FRM agent is suspected of killing another local police officer and seriously injuring two minors when he tried to prevent the lynching of suspected robbers by the public.
The incident occurred in Beira town in Sofala province when a PRM agent tried to prevent the lynching of two alleged robbers by members of the public in Makuti district on Saturday.
“We found two people who were robbing houses, and when the police arrived, instead of protecting the population, they began to manipulate the weapon and shot the man in the head, injuring two children, one of them is my son,” Alcindo Mateus. said Lusa, the father of one of the victims, who said the officer was drunk.
The population also accuses the agent of failing to provide assistance to the victims.
Two minors, 12 and 14 years old, were hospitalized at Beira Central Hospital.
The hospital’s director-general, Nelson Mukopo, said on Tuesday that the teenagers who were shot were in stable clinical condition and were out of danger.
“Last Saturday, we received two children suffering from gunshot wounds. The first child is a child under 14 years old who was admitted with a gunshot wound to the right arm and another wound to the chest,” he explained.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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