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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 17:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Maputo – The Mozambican police say they have made arrests in connection with the 30 March bomb blast in the up-market Maputo suburb of Sommerschield.
However, national police spokesperson Pedro Cossa, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, declined to give the names of those detained, or even reveal how many arrests had been made.
“There have been detentions and the investigation is continuing”, he said. “The suspects are Mozambicans. But I can give you no further details”.
The bomb was attached to a motorcycle parked outside a residence once owned by Momade Assife Abdul Satar (“Nini”), one of the businessmen serving lengthy prison sentences for ordering the murder of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso in November 2000.
Currently a Pakistani citizen named Syed Manzar Abbas is living in the house (there have been conflicting reports as to whether he owns it, or is paying rent). According to a report in the independent weekly “Savana”, he has lived in Maputo for 16 years, and is regarded as one of richest members of the local Pakistani community.
Abbas owns the Al-Meca foreign exchange bureau in central Maputo, and has interests in the company Fenix Projects and Investments, which is involved in building a large hotel next door to the city’s main conference centre.
“Savana” also says that Abbas is building an apartment block where an Italian restaurant once stood on Friedrich Engels Avenue. This building is the subject of bitter protests by local residents, who argue that it is entirely illegal.
Abbas was also involved several years ago in business with the company J & B Recording, two of whose owners met violent deaths. One of them, known as Baboo, was gunned down in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2003. A few months later, his partner Mohammed Jawed was shot dead outside the Coimbra restaurant in downtown Maputo.
“Savana” claims that the intention of the bomb blast was to destroy Abbas’s family. It was timed to go off at 14.00, which is when his wife habitually takes the couple’s children to school. But the device exploded ten minutes early, killing nobody, but injuring three passers-by.
“The idea was to assassinate his wife and children in order to send a strong message to Manzar Abbas”, says “Savana” – a message from business rivals based in Pakistan, according to the paper’s sources.
Cossa also announced that the police have recovered two police firearms stolen by criminals on 11 March. That was when a criminal gang attacked two police patrols, killing three police officers and seriously injuring another two.
Cossa said the guns were found in Boane district, about 30 kilometres west of Maputo, in the possession of a man who has now been detained. Cossa said the police believe this man was involved in the murder of the three policemen
The police had already arrested five alleged members of the gang, including a 22 year old woman, and a Swazi citizen.
Cossa said that last week the police recorded 235 crimes in the entire country and detained 656 people.
Two of those detained are themselves police officers. One is accused of beating a citizen to death in Maputo, while the second was caught transporting illegal Somali migrants in the central province of Zambezia.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060956.html?viewall=1