Luanda - The National Commission for Disarmament of citizens illegally owning fire-arms collected throughout the country 56,655 weapons, over 36,000 bullets magazines and 202.771 ammunitions, in the ambit of the process of disarming the civil population.

The data which were presented on Wednesday in the Cabinet Council meeting, by the second commander-general for public order of the Angolan National Police, commissioner Paulo de Almeida, reveal that more than 50 weapons magazines were destroyed together with 1,027 grenades, 1,395 projectiles and 1,278 mines.

The commissioner said to journalists at the end of the executive meeting that it was destroyed more than 11,000 fire-arms, recovered over 35,000 weapons, and the police are in the process of recovering more than 10,300 weapons.

The received number of weapons satisfies the government, as the National Police record a reduction in criminal actions with fire-arms, he adds.

He thinks that the reduction of the amount of weapons which are being handed over by the civil population also indicates that there are no many more to be collected.

The disarmament process started in April 2008 and it is to end in 2010.