The Mozambican police have dismissed the stories circulating in the media about containers of guns and drugs in the port of Maputo as “a false alarm”.The claims were made by the daily paper “O Pais” and the independent television station STV last week. Initially there was no police response, but on Thursday the police told a rival paper “Noticias” that there were indeed two containers full of weapons – but they were in transit to Swaziland, at the request of the Swazi authorities.It now turns out that the containers on the way to Swaziland are not the same as the ones mentioned in the “O Pais”/STV stories. A statement from the General Command of the Mozambican police says that two other containers were under investigation, following the anonymous tip-off to STV.A team was set up to investigate the containers, consisting of representatives of the police, the customs service and the US embassy (thus strongly suggesting that the source of the alarm was American).But a close inspection of the contents of the containers showed that they contained nothing apart from electrical appliances and children’s toys. There were no guns and no drugs.According to STV, the goods have now been released to their owner, which is a Mozambique-registered import-export company.