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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>About 200 people invaded a police station in Tete, central Mozambique, on Friday in an attempt to punish suspects in a homicide, but police defended themselves with live fire, wounding five, a corporation source told Lusa on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Police of the Republic of Mozambique was obliged to use the necessary means to restore order in the enclosure,\u201d provincial police spokesman Feliciano da Ca\u0302mara said in defence of the shooting.<\/p>\n

The five people injured during the clash were admitted to Tete provincial hospital and are \u201cout of danger\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

The crowd advanced on Tete city\u2019s Third Police Station as they returned from the funeral of a motorcycle taxi driver who had been murdered two days earlier.<\/p>\n

Knowing that the suspects were being held there, they were seeking to take justice into their own hands, and clashed with security force agents.<\/p>\n

The rioters demanded the release of the three suspects in order \u201cto lynch them\u201d, saying that they had no confidence in justice being delivered, it having so far failing to stop what they call \u201ca wave of murders\u201d of motorcycle taxi drivers, prior to their motorbikes being stolen.<\/p>\n

The population hurled objects at the police and vandalized the station as well as police and private vehicles.<\/p>\n

By the end of the turmoil, 11 people had been arrested for riot, and 16 motorcycles seized from the group instigating the action, the police spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The police would return the seized motorcycles this Tuesday during a meeting with the Matundo neighbourhood community, he added.<\/p>\n

The meeting would seek to \u201crestore popular collaboration and trust\u201d, in addition to \u201creaffirming\u201d the police as a \u201clegitimate force for guaranteeing order,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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