Monday, May 11, 2009

Mozambique Police Claim Dam Sabotage Plot Foiled

Mozambique — There are reports that Mozambique police arrested four foreigners this week who the police allege were plotting to sabotage the Cahora Bassa Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric dams in Africa. The suspects, who are individually from South Africa, Botswana, Germany and Portugal, were caught supposedly putting some type of corrosive substance into the facility's turbines. However, a technical expert at the plant told the Cape Argus that the police version of the story is "idiotic" and the men were caught dumping something into the lake, not the turbines.

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