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The Mozambik police are not familiar with the opposition leader on demonstrators

The Mosambican police released supporters of the opposition leader Venancio Mondlane in the capital Maputo on Wednesday and injured at least 10 people, said the Mondlane team and a human rights researcher.

A police spokesman confirmed that the law enforcement authorities had distributed the demonstrators, but declined to work out.

Mondlan's supporters had gathered for hours ahead of President Daniel Chapo, who signed an agreement with some political parties who aimed to end months of protests against Chapo's controversial election victory last year.

Mondlane finished second in the presidential vote, but was excluded from the talks before the agreement that should include a review of the state's electoral laws.

Analysts say that the exclusion of Mondlane means that the agreement will probably not help stabilize the resource -rich South African country.

The Mondlane team said in a statement published on Facebook that his whereabouts were not known after the police had broken off the march. It is said that 16 people were injured.

Mondlane did not answer Reuters.

In a separate video that transmits live from Mondlanes Facebook page, the opposition leader was stood in a car and down a street and by a lot of people who cheer and sing. The sound of shots rang, whereupon the people ran and the video cut off abruptly.

Buses that block a street in Maputo on Wednesday. Ailton Neves / AFP via Getty Images

Zenaida Machado, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the organization was convicted by the police on Wednesday. She added that shooting on a peaceful opposition gathered endangered efforts to stability after Mozambique.

The political analyst Joao Feijo said that the government's talks with other political parties were little more than the theater without Mondlane's commitment.

“The longer it takes to involve Venancio, the worse the chances of stabilizing the situation,” he said.

The local Plataforma of the local civil society surveillance group decides that more than 350 people were killed in the demonstrations after the election at the end of October.

Mondlane informed the followers on Wednesday that if necessary, he would continue his anti -government protests for years.

He says Chapo and his Frelimo party won the elections in October through voting elections, while western observers say that it was not free and fair.

Frelimo has ruled Mozambique since the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 and denied the allegations for election fraud.