Truck driver shot at in DRC
Published On February 16, 2014
By Diran Chama
By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA
AN unidentified foreign truck in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) has allegedly been shot at by unknown people.
The truck, which was believed to driven by a Tanzanian driver whose
particulars were yet to be known, was allegedly shot at on Wednesday
at a place called Migration.
Migration is a village situated about 30 kilometres from Kasumbalesa
Border Post.
International Truck Drivers Association chairperson Stanley Muluka,
who has been representing fellow drivers in the recent meetings
involving Zambian authorities and their DRC counterparts over the
volatile situation at the border area, confirmed this but said he was
yet to get more details from people on the ground.
He said from preliminary information he had received, some people
suspected to belong to a rebel group called 'Mai Mai' shot at a truck
and that the driver escaped unhurt.
"This has not been confirmed by the DRC government but by ordinary
people and so we are following up the matter with the Congolese
authorities," he said.
Mr Muluka, who was by press time headed to Kasumbalesa Border Post,
said he would avail more details at a later stage.
Copperbelt police chief Joyce Kasosa said she had not received
information on the matter.
"What I know is that fighting has continued in DRC but on the attack
of the truck we have not received information," she said.
Recently, Home Affairs Minister Ngosa Simbyakula said the Government
was proposing the creation of a dry port in Zambia to allow truck
drivers to offload goods destined to the DRC so that trucks from that
country could pick them there should the shooting of truck drivers
continue.
Meanwhile, Zambia Revenue Authority Kasumbalesa station manager Levy
Simatimbe said the situation at the border post was slowly
normalising.
"The queue covered by trucks has now been reduced to somewhere after
Lubambe junction from Chililabombwe Town where it had reached," Mr
Simatimbe said.
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