Mozambique: Four Police Dead in Clashes With Demonstrators

Maputo — At least four members of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR – the Mozambican riot police) died on Wednesday, during clashes with protesters during mass demonstrations in Chimbazo region, between the districts of Luabo and Mopeia, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia.

The tragedy, according to sources cited by the local “Rádio Chuabo’, took place when the police officers started to shoot into a group of demonstrators who were marching peacefully as part of demonstrations called…