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Mozambique rocked by the killings of 2 prominent opposition figures soon after disputed election

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MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party said Saturday. The killings came as the country waits for the results of a tense election that has drawn more allegations of vote rigging and clamping down on dissent against the long-ruling governing party. The PODEMOS opposition party said Elvino Dias, a lawyer and advisor to opposition presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, and the party’s spokesperson were killed by gunmen in two vehicles who riddled their car with bullets on a main avenue in the city of Maputo late Friday night.

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