Trucker fatally shot by trigger happy policemen while trying to flee.
Protection and police traffic officers, allegedly not identified in Tete, fatally shot a trucker at the end-of-week,at Caundje control station in Moatize district,allegedly for attempting to escape after being involved in a road accident.
The driver was hit with five bullets in the rib cage,according to Radio
Mozambique,quoting the spokesman of the Police for the Republic of Mozambique (PRM),Luis Núdia,in that central province of the country,explaining that the circumstances in which the victim was shot were unclear,but there is information specifyiing that the driver in question had immobilized the truck at the local checkpoint and then attempted to make an escape on foot.
Louis Núdia added that the provincial commander of the PRM in Tete has formed a team to investigate the real causes that motivated the agents of law and order to open fire on the late,because it is believed that there was an excess of zeal on the part of police officers.
"The direction of the command created a team to go to Moatize to assess the situation,to see what had really contributed to the end of shooting real bullets at the motorist,serving and considering he had left the car and was running with his own feet.
The fact that the vehicle was abandoned was enough for us to seek to know the company and the driver who had been entrusted with the vehicle",said the police commandant according to the public radio station.
The spokesman for PRM that the driver in question,in addition to causing accidents between cars,hit a taxi driver and damaged a fence in the municipal town of Moatize.
However,sources close to the victim,who refused to be identified also claimed that a woman who was in the company of the deceased was shot seriously in
the lower limbs; an information not confirmed by the police
The driver was hit with five bullets in the rib cage,according to Radio
Mozambique,quoting the spokesman of the Police for the Republic of Mozambique (PRM),Luis Núdia,in that central province of the country,explaining that the circumstances in which the victim was shot were unclear,but there is information specifyiing that the driver in question had immobilized the truck at the local checkpoint and then attempted to make an escape on foot.
Louis Núdia added that the provincial commander of the PRM in Tete has formed a team to investigate the real causes that motivated the agents of law and order to open fire on the late,because it is believed that there was an excess of zeal on the part of police officers.
"The direction of the command created a team to go to Moatize to assess the situation,to see what had really contributed to the end of shooting real bullets at the motorist,serving and considering he had left the car and was running with his own feet.
The fact that the vehicle was abandoned was enough for us to seek to know the company and the driver who had been entrusted with the vehicle",said the police commandant according to the public radio station.
The spokesman for PRM that the driver in question,in addition to causing accidents between cars,hit a taxi driver and damaged a fence in the municipal town of Moatize.
However,sources close to the victim,who refused to be identified also claimed that a woman who was in the company of the deceased was shot seriously in
the lower limbs; an information not confirmed by the police
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