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Data were advanced by the interior minister of Angola
The provisional balance of the Angolan authorities points to 22 dead, 197 injured and 1,214 arrests on the two days of riots recorded in Luanda province during a taxi driver stoppage, the government advanced on Wednesday.
The data were advanced by the Interior Minister of Angola, Manuel Homem, at the end of the meeting of the Council of Ministers, where the point of the last two days was passed, marked by acts of vandalism in the Angolan capital.
The acts of violence took place following the stoppage for three days of taxi services, convened by taxi associations and cooperatives, in protest in the face of fuel price and public transport rates.
