Africa-Press – Angola. Four deaths and more than 500 arrests is the provisional toll presented by the Angolan National Police, following the strike decreed by taxi drivers in Luanda, marked by acts of vandalism, looting and violence.
National Police spokesman Deputy Commissioner Mateus Rodrigues told reporters that the public security situation in the Angolan capital was stable, indicating that 45 stores, 25 private vehicles, 20 public buses, and three bank branches had been vandalized.
“We are seeing a return to normality, thanks to the work that was done yesterday [Monday] during the afternoon and evening ,” said Mateus Rodrigues, highlighting the opening of the main roads – where acts of vandalism were recorded – in the last 24 hours, and the removal of obstacles placed on the roads, preventing the free movement of people.
According to Mateus Rodrigues, this Tuesday there are still “some pockets of disorder” in some areas, “where individuals with the same intentions as those who (…) perpetrated some actions, but are being repelled in an exemplary manner”.
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