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Maputo \u2014 The number of suspects detained in connection with the murder of Os\u00f3rio Citora Afonso, Bishop of the Diocese of Quelimane, in the central Mozambican province of Zamb\u00e9zia, has risen from four to five.<\/p>\n
Bishop Os\u00f3rio Afonso, who was also Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, was shot dead last June with an AKM-type firearm.<\/p>\n
Among the suspects, there are two Catholic priests, a guard employed by the Quelimane Diocese and two civilians.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maputo \u2014 The number of suspects detained in connection with the murder of Os\u00f3rio Citora Afonso, Bishop of the Diocese of Quelimane, in the central Mozambican province of Zamb\u00e9zia, has risen from four to five. Bishop Os\u00f3rio Afonso, who was also Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,11244,12402,7160,4704,682,304,257,7043,8688,254],"class_list":["post-249376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishops","tag-connection","tag-detainees","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-number","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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