Mogincual district police commander Domingos Coutino and head of the
criminal investigation department in the same district Basilio Naculo
were suspended for negligence, Nampula provincial commander Arsenia
Massingue said in a telephone interview on Thursday evening.
"What we have now gathered in our investigation is that the prisoners
died from overcrowding in a cell which held 41 prisoners more than its
carrying capacity of 34," she said.
The deaths in the province, about 3 000km north of Maputo, came to light on Tuesday morning.
The 12 prisoners killed were part of 29 rioters arrested last Saturday
in the same district for allegedly leading protests against Red Cross
volunteers and government officials they accused of manufacturing
cholera.
The disease had killed 15 people in that province since January.
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