Terrorists kill two in Macomia
(AIM) – Two people were found dead on Monday in Litamanda village, Chai administrative post, Macomia district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in Tuesday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique.”
According to local inhabitants, cited by the paper, the victims were decapitated by terrorists after being found fishing in a local lake.
“The group of terrorists who beheaded the two people yesterday passed very close to Lake Inguri, where fishermen converge, mostly from the villages of Muidumbe district”, the sources said, adding that “on Saturday, another group of terrorists was seen on the Chai-Fifth Congress stretch, a distance of about 20 kilometres from Litamanda, the village where the two victims lived.”
On Friday night, a minibus, parked at the owner’s residence, was set on fire in Changane neighbourhood, in Macomia town, by unknown individuals.
Cabo Delgado has been plagued by terrorism since October 2017 and, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the conflict has left one million people displaced and about 4,000 dead.
Since July 2021, the Mozambican defence and security forces, with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM), have been liberating districts near natural gas projects, which had previously been occupied by the terrorists.
(AIM)
