24 December 2007
Maputo — Policemen shot dead on Saturday morning Augusto Covilas, a dancer and choreographer in Mozambique's internationally acclaimed National Song and Dance Company (CNCD).
Members of the Covilas family told AIM that the dancer's house, in the Maputo suburb of Triunfo, was being surrounded by men who apparently intended to raid it. Covilas sought assistance and rang the police - who gave the answer, all too common in Maputo, that there was nothing they could do because they did not have a car.
Covilas contacted a relative whom provided a car to take the police to the house. However, by the time the police arrived at the house, the thieves had gone. But the police, instead of finding out who was in the house, simply opened fire through the wooden doors.
The hail of police bullets instantly killed Covilas himself, and seriously injured a security guard, who is currently undergoing medical treatment at Maputo Central Hospital.
Maputo City police spokesman, Abilio Quive, said that the two policemen who opened fire have been arrested, and will be charged with murder.
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Is nothing new. they have been mudering inocent annd defenseless people for 30 years frelimo did it first.gave weapons to the criminals short after the so called independence. those melicious they have killed a lot of citizens over a kilo of rice and they have abused a lot of young and inocent women because they were the security of the bakery shop down street from the sede de melices whatever they called those evil minded. and then machangahisa did muderer a lot of my people blaming us for they disagreement between them they knew each other from the very… [Read Full Text]