Within a week of an Ankleshwar native being killed in South Africa, another 55-year-old man from Karjan taluka was shot dead in his house in Mozambique last week. Hanif Mohammed Banglawala, a native of Valan village in Karjan, was shot at by four people who barged into his house with an intention of robbery.
Hanif was preparing to go to sleep in his room while his wife and daughter were in the kitchen. The assailants entered the house and snatched two mobile phones and a laptop from Hanif's wife and daughter. They locked up both women inside the kitchen and came out. Hanif, who heard the commotion, came out from his room and saw the assailants. Before he could react, they opened fire and shot four bullets at him. One bullet pierced through Hanif's neck and another hit his waist.
The assailants then fled. Hanif was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died during the treatment.
Sources said that Hanif stayed in the Valan village till he turned 18 and then shifted to Saudi Arabia, where he stayed for 24 years. He came back for a year. About six years ago, he migrated to Mozambique and opened a provision store there. He stayed there with his wife, daughter and son-in-law. His younger daughter Tabassum and son Rizwan study in Karjan.
This is third incident of attack on Gujaratis in Africa in last one month. Few days before, Ishrak Chauhan and his brother Imran, who originally hail from Hansot in Bharuch, were attacked by unidentified persons in Peteirsberg city in South Africa. While Ishrak died on the spot, Imran suffered injuries in the attack.
On September 6, 40-year-old Biren Patel, a native of Anand, was stabbed by two unidentified assailants with a sharp-edged weapon in South Africa. Patel was attacked when he was closing his provision store in Pretoria when assailants barged in, robbed the provision store and slit Patel's throat.
