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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mamad Bachir\u2019s children have been afraid to get into a car since the one they were traveling in was set alight in an attack in South Africa, a trauma that has led Mozambican passenger transport carriers to consider changing routes to avoid the \u201crisk area\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur concern is not material goods, but the trauma that the children have suffered. My wife and I are going to get over it, we are adults, but the children have been afraid to get into the car ever since the incident,\u201d Mamad Bachir told Lusa.<\/p>\n

Bachir, his wife and three children, aged between 6 and 12, were forced to get out of their car on Saturday, and watched it being torched by attackers in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, just 92 kilometres from the border with Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey poured gasoline in the car and set it alight,\u201d the Mozambican said, recounting \u201ca very painful tragedy\u201d, in which they lost everything they had and were left \u201cwith only the clothes on their backs\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the victim, the group of about 12 armed robbers burned four vehicles, two of which belonged to his cousin and his neighbour, a lady, who were also heading to Mozambique with their families, including children.<\/p>\n

The robbers \u201cdid not demand money or goods\u201d, limiting themselves to saying that it was a \u201cproblem with the South African government\u201d, Bachir said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe handed over phones, money and everything we could to get them to let us go, but they wouldn\u2019t budge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mozambican transporters also report \u201cfear\u201d and \u201cgreat shock\u201d and are currently pondering using the Eswatini border to reach Durban, avoiding \u201cthe risk area\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are afraid to use that route. I am in talks with colleagues to see if we can change the route, instead of using Via Ponta do Ouro, we will use Via Suazila\u0302ndia [Eswatini],\u201d transport association president Frederico Lopes told Lusa.<\/p>\n

According to Frederico, the route through Eswatini was used in the past, but was abandoned in favour of new roads opened in the meantime.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cjudging by the risk situation on the Ponta do Ouro route\u201d, the old route could be used again, after presentation to the Mozambican Ministry of Transport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say that the situation is under control one day, and the next day criminals appear and set vehicles on fire,\u201d Lopes concluded.<\/p>\n

Suffering a lack of passengers, the association has asked the Mozambican government to speak to the South African authorities about the matter and take measures to stop the attacks.<\/p>\n

National South African Police (SAPS) Commissioner Fannie Masemola visited the northern part of KwaZulu-Natal province, near the border with Mozambique, on Tuesday, to assess the police response to cross-border crime, the force announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commissioner\u2019s visit follows the recent incident in which at least six vehicles, including a tourist bus and a lorry, were burned on the R22 road between Hluhluwe and Mbazwane,\u201d the SAPS statement states.<\/p>\n

The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Vero\u0301nica Macamo, described the situation as \u201ccomplicated\u201d on Monday, while pledging that efforts by the governments of the two countries to end the insecurity were underway.<\/p>\n

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