An angry crowd in Magude district, in Maputo province, attacked three police officers, included the Magude district commander, early in the morning of New Year’s Day.The three men were seriously injured, and all are undergoing hospital treatment.According to Pedro Cossa, spokesperson for the General Command of the Mozambican police, the attack occurred at about midnight, when the crowd broke into the Magude District Police Command, demanding an explanation for the fatal shooting by a policeman of a three year old child. Cossa said that the policeman who fired the fatal shot is under detention, while investigations continue.This is the second time during the festive season that crowds have attacked policemen because of the abuse of police firearms. On Xmas Day, in Muidumbe district in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, a policeman was beaten to death after he had shot a young man in the leg.On 31 December, unknown assailants attacked a community leader in Maniquinique, in Chibuto district, in the southern province of Gaza. According to the Gaza police spokesperson, Isaltino Mavie, the attackers accused the community leader of witchcraft, and burnt his house to the ground. The police arrived before the group could do any bodily harm to the community leader, and they fled.The specific accusation against the community leader, who has not been named, is that he controls a crocodile that has been killing people in Maniquinique. The Limpopo river, which has a large crocodile population, runs through the area.Crocodiles often attack people when they are bathing or washing clothes in the river. In the nearby district of Guija, in one of the most recent crocodile attacks, one child was killed and a second was seriously injured.However, a common belief in rural Mozambique is that crocodiles are not simply dangerous predators, but are under human control. Attacks by crocodiles will frequently lead to what is literally a witchhunt – a search for the person supposedly giving orders to the crocodile.
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