Mozambique's leading opposition politician, Venancio Mondlane, claimed in a video Monday to have escaped an attempted assassination in South Africa where he had taken refuge after last month's disputed elections.
In a video on social media, Venancio Mondlane, claims people came to where he was staying and tried to kill him. He details have to escape by jumping out the back door. Picture: Facebook Mozambique 's leading opposition politician, Venancio Mondlane, claimed in a video Monday to have escaped an attempted assassination in South Africa where he had taken refuge after last month's disputed elections.
"When I was in South Africa, assassins were at my door to kill me," Mondlane said in the video on Facebook."I had to jump out the back door, slip out through a hair salon... and run with my bags and my family." Mondlane has used social media to call for protests against the election result, including a march in the capital Maputo due this Thursday that he promises will be"the day of Mozambique's freedom".
In two days of protests directly after the announcement, security forces killed at least 11 people and more than 50 others suffered serious gunshot wounds, Human Rights Watch said last week.
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