A truck packed with dozens of Frelimo supporters overturned and injured at least 26 people in Massingir district, Gaza, yesterday (Thursday 3 October). The truck was carrying people from the village of Banga to Frelimo candidate Filipe Nyusi’s rally at 9 am on the Massingir football pitch, our correspondents report. Four seriously injured were taken to Chókwè Hospital.
Most of the deaths and injuries in this this election campaign have been due to traffic accidents, and Frelimo, in particular, has been plagued by road deaths. After seven people were killed and 50 injured when a packed truck overturned returning from a Nyusi rally in Songo, Tete, on 22 September, Filipe Nyusi has repeatedly said that people are not being transported to his rallies to boost the crowds. But it is clearly still happening.
Child killed by Frelimo caravan car
A 10-year-old child was killed yesterday, Thursday, by a car carrying Frelimo supporters to a rally of Frelimo candidate Filipe Nyusi in the village of Macia, Bilene district, Gaza. The incident occurred on National Road 1 (N1) in front of the 4 October primary school. A group of children left school to pick up Frelimo leaflets being thrown out the window by the occupants of the car. On the way back to school, one was hit and killed.
Since the start of the election campaign, more than 20 people have lost their lives as a result of traffic accidents caused by vehicles in the campaign.
