Four injured

Four people were injured in an armed attack on a Transportadora Etrago bus registered in the Gondola district of Manica at around 6:00 a.m. today, Friday.

One is in a serious condition, and the three others suffered minor injuries. The attack took place in the vicinity of Muda Serração, about 75 kilometres from the city of Chimoio. The target was an Etrago Company bus on the Maputo-Quelimane route. A hospital source in Gondola district said that four people were injured, one of them seriously, but stressed that hospital staff were not authorised to give interviews, and victims were not to be approached. Our reporter was prevented from taking pictures inside the Gondola district hospital, where a security detail was mounted at the emergency room door to prevent images being captured. The seriously injured victim was transferred to Chimoio Provincial Hospital in a municipal ambulance at around 11:30 a.m. today.