A mob has killed six men near Mozambique’s industrial town of Matola in a lynching, after accusing them of robbing, killing and sexually abusing women and girls.
The mob alleged that one of the members of the gang – dubbed Machete men – was a policeman.
Lynchings are quite common in Mozambique, apparently because of a shortage of police patrols in residential neighbourhoods.
Police spokesman Antonio Bachir said he could not confirm or deny whether one of the gang members was a policeman.
He said the six were part of an eight-man gang and that police were searching for the remaining two members.
He urged the public not to take the law into their own hands.
