06-06-2026 18:16 via vanguardngr.com

Catholic bishop shot dead in Mozambique

A Catholic bishop appointed to a central region of Mozambique by Pope Leo XIV was shot dead at home Saturday in what the country’s episcopal body called “mysterious circumstances”.Bishop Osorio Citora Afonso, 54, was shot in the chest “probably with a single bullet”, a spokesman for the criminal investigations bureau, Maximino Amilcar, told reporters outside the senior clergyman’s residence in Quelimane.He qualified the killing as “murder by gunshot&rdq
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