According to the Angolan police, the situation in the country returned to normal
The last provisional balance of the Angolan police points to 30 dead and 277 injured following the registered riots, in the last three days in several Angolan provinces, due to a stoppage of taxi services.
The point of the situation presented this Thursday by the Angola National Police spokesman, Subcommittee Mateus Rodrigues, said that to date 1,515 people have been arrested, as well as 118 commercial establishments, 24 public buses, more than 20 private vehicles, five defense and safety forces vehicles, a motorcycle and an ambulance.
Mateus Rodrigues assured that the cases that resulted in deaths “are deserving the proper investigation of the authorities to assess the circumstances in which they occurred”, noting that among the number of injured, ten are security forces to security.
According to Mateus Rodrigues, the situation is characterized as stable, calm, with the return to normality, circulation in the roads, without the registration of any incident of enhancement.
“He returned to normal life,” said the source, repudiating the assisted acts in the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Icolo and Bengo, Bengo, Huíla, Malanje, Huambo and Lunda Norte.
The Angolan police spokesman expressed concern of the authorities with information circulating on social networks, sharing information on violence, incidents in the early days of this situation, as if they were currently occurring.
The source also denied an alleged statement of mandatory collection, allegedly issued by the Angolan authorities, noting that the forces continue on the streets to develop the work of maintaining the order “and ready for answers in case of some other situation of order change.”
From Monday to Tuesday, a taxi services were stopped, convened by taxi associations and cooperatives, in protest to climb the price of fuel and public transport tariffs, which citizens find very high.
Acts of vandalism, violence and rioting were recorded during the taxi drivers’ strike period in various Angolan provinces.
