Mozambique: Police Believe Ambush Was Work of Common Criminals

Maputo — Nampula (Mozambique), 17 Sep (AIM) - The Mozambican police in the northern province of Nampula have not ruled out the possibility that the ambush against a bus and a truck in Malema district last Friday was the work of common criminals, with no political motivations.

Speaking in Nampula city on Monday, at his weekly press briefing, the spokesperson for the Nampula Provincial Police Command, Zacarias Nacute, said that one person (the bus driver) was killed in the ambush, and three others were injured by a gang using firearms and machetes.

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