The Decide Electoral Platform, a Mozambican NGO, claims that at least 176 people were shot dead by the police last week during rioting by supporters of self-exiled presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane to protest against the fraudulent results of the general elections.
This brings the total number of fatalities since 21 October, to 278 across Mozambique. The death toll is said to have been particularly high in this phase because it coincided with a mass breakout of prisoners from the Maputo Central Prison and the adjacent Top Security Prison.