Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican police on Friday paraded 11 detainees suspected of involvement in a wave of homicides in the city of Beira, central Mozambique, the victims of which have mostly been women, an official source announced.
“The detainees are involved in multiple cases of rape and murder of women in the neighbourhoods of Macurungo, Manga, Chungissura, Mascarenhas, Pioneiro and Estudos,” said Alfeu Sitoe, National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) spokesman for the province of Sofala, of which Beira is the capital.
Sitoe said that the Beira victims, chiefly women, have most commonly been asphyxiated. At least 13 homicides have been recorded in Sofala in the last four weeks, nine of them in Beira, according to Dércio Chacate, spokesman for the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in the province.
The wave of violent homicides recorded since October is alarming the residents of the precarious neighbourhoods on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
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