source: Lusa
actor1: Rioters (Mozambique)
actor2: Police Forces of Mozambique (1990-)
location: Chongoene
notes: On 19 January 2018, rioting broke out after the lynchings took place in Chongoene. Hoping to seize and kill the third victim, the mob marched to the police station and raided the police offices and the administrative post, ransacked residencies and burned 2 vechiles. 5 houses, 3 of them owned by the suspected thieves, were burned down. The Riot Intervention Police was forced to intervene. [size=no report].