MAPUTO, Mozambique
Several villages in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado came under renewed attack by islamist terrorists over the past week, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the independent newssheet, “Mediafax”.
The Nova Zambezia village in Macomia district was
raided on Wednesday, and on Thursday Mitambo, in Meluco district, was attacked.
At least one person was beheaded in Nova Zambezia and one in Mitambo.
The jihadists attacked Iba, also in Meluco, on
Friday. They killed at least six people, burnt down homes and looted property.
The same group moved on to attack Muiaguide village, where they murdered at
least eight people.
Survivors fled from Iba and Muiaguide on Saturday
and Sunday, and sought shelter in Macomia town. The head of the Iba administrative
post was one of these displaced people, and he told “Mediafax” he had counted
12 bodies of the terrorists’ victims,
He also denounced “the lack of intervention and
reaction by the defence and security forces”, although Iba is only 13
kilometres from Macomia town where military units are stationed.
Meanwhile Mozambican and Rwandan forces are
reported to have killed two terrorists whom they ambushed in the area of
Nankidunga, about six kilometres from the Mocimboa da Praia district capital.
One of the dead terrorists was identified as a
Tanzanian citizen named Twahili Mwidini, who usually operated in Macomia. Two
AK-47 assault rifles were recovered from the bodies.
In the neighbouring province of Niassa, the local
police command has denied that the armed group that attacked a minibus in Maua
district on Friday has anything to do with the Cabo Delgado terrorists. They
said the minibus was ambushed “by a group of criminals”, who are now being
pursued by the defence and security forces,
There were two masked attackers, one armed with an
AK-47 and the other with a machete. They murdered the driver of the minibus and
injured two of the passengers. They stole about 800,000 meticais (12,500 US
dollars, at the current exchange rate) and various other possessions of the
passengers.
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