/ 31 January 1999

MOZ NAVY CHIEF SHOT

MOZAMBIQUE’S navy commander Rear-Admiral Pascoal Jose Nhalungo is in critical condition in a Maputo hospital after a group of unknown gunmen shot him on Wednesday night. The Mozambican’s Defence Force said on Friday that Nhalungo was shot at point blank range in his car in a quiet Maputo suburb. His is in intensive care at Maputo’s Central Hospital, where doctors have extracted three AK47 bullets from his abdomen.