The Mozambican Prison Service (SERNAP) announced that the authorities have so far recaptured 322 inmates of the 1,534 who escaped from the Maputo Central prison and the adjacent Top Security prison in the Christmas Day riot.
SERNAP calls on the public to cooperate with the authorities by providing any information that could help in the recapture of the escaped prisoners. To this end, a list was shared with details on some inmates. However, 82 of the fugitives do not possess complete biographical data – the record contains only the number of their case file, without any other personal or criminal information. There is also a group of prisoners without fingerprint data. Many of the photographs available are in low resolution, which makes any attempt at visual identification difficult.