Maputo, 31 Jan (AIM) – Islamist terrorists have attacked the village of Pulo, in Metuge district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, murdering two people who were working on their fields, according to a report in Wednesday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Moçambique.”
The village, which was invaded last weekend, is around 50 kilometres from Pemba, the Cabo Delgado provincial capital.
According to sources cited by the paper, the terrorists captured three people, one of whom managed to escape after being mistreated, while the other two, both women, were beheaded.
“It was in the Pulo area, where displaced families also live. In fact, two people were beheaded and the third escaped and came to inform the village. The bodies were buried on Sunday, right there in the fields”, said Mário Alfredo, one of the paper’s sources.
The same group of terrorists was seen heading towards the administrative post of Mazeze, in Chiúre district. When they passed through the fields of Impiri village, in Metuge, they kidnapped women and children.
However, the administrator of Metuge, Salésio Paulo, told the press that only one person was killed, a man over 40 years of age.
Paulo confirmed that the terrorists had left in the direction of Chiúre “Despite the panic, the population has not fled from the village, but is afraid to go to its fields”, he said.
Further north, traffic between Macomia district and Awasse locality, in Mocimboa da Praia district, on the N380 road, has resumed after an interruption on Saturday as a result of the collapse of an aqueduct over the Napacala River.
According to the National Road Administration (ANE), the road was reopened after the main emergency work to assemble the aqueduct was completed on Tuesday. Although finishing work is still being carried out, “this does not prevent vehicles from travelling on the road.”
As a result of an earlier Napacala river collapse, two weeks ago, five districts in Cabo Delgado became temporarily inaccessible, namely: Miudumbe, Mueda, Nangade, Mocimboa da Praia and Palma.
Along the same road, prior to the collapse, vehicles were escorted by military convoy from Macomia town to the northern districts, because of terrorist attacks. The road also serves the logistics of the Rovuma Basin natural gas industry, in Palma district.
(AIM)
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