Mozambique journalists accuse police of assault

Journalists in Mozambique have accused the police of assaulting three of their colleagues who were investigating alleged detention of young people.

The youths were allegedly detained at a police in the northern Nampula province over links to a video that had captured a municipality police officer assaulting a vendor.

The Mozambique branch of the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) said the TV journalists were assaulted and detained when they went to interview the arrested youths at the station.

One of the journalists lost his motorbike in the confrontation.