NO FATALITIES IN DESTRUCTION OF RENAMO CAMP

The Mozambican police have denied reports in some of the media that Saturday’s attack on a camp of armed men loyal to the former rebel movement Renamo resulted in fatalities.Antonio Pelembe, head of operations of the General Command of the Mozambican police, told reporters in Maputo on Tuesday that there was no clash with the Renamo men on Saturday, since when the police and military units reached the camp, its occupants had already left. However, on their return from the camp, the police heard shots fired in the distance.“Those shots didn’t kill anybody in our forces”, said Pelembe. “Some of the media have reported that there were dozens of deaths. This is not true. We suffered no losses at all”.He added “whenever there are losses, we inform the media”.He confirmed that in the operation, the 53 huts in the camp were destroyed. These huts had housed an unspecified number of Renamo fighters, who used the camp as their base for the attacks in late June against vehicles on the main north-south highway, near the small town of Muxungue, in the central province of Sofala.In those attacks two trucks were burnt out, and two people, a truck driver and a driver’s mate, were killed. “We are pursuing the people responsible for the armed attacks on the public highway”, declared Pelembe.