Maputo, 9 May (AIM) – Residents of Macomia district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, have denounced the existence of mines or other explosive devices on the road that leads to Mucojo administrative post, according to Thursday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique.”
As a result of these devices, it has been difficult to walk or use transport, which means that people are forced to use alternative routes to get to and from that administrative post.
According to local sources, people’s main concern is that the explosives have been laid on a stretch usually used by fishermen.
“An engineer travelling along the road stepped on a mine that exploded and lost his life. The incident took place in the early hours of last Thursday, very close to the village of Napala”, said one source.
Another resident, named Pinto Saíde, said that people have been going to Mucojo, but since last week the traffic has reduced in both directions, because in the Napala region they discovered the explosive devices on the road.
“On that day, the victim’s companions were also slightly injured, but they didn’t suffer too much”, he said.
So far, it is not known who planted the explosives in that section, but it is believed that Islamist terrorists, who have been carrying out extreme violence in the region, are responsible.
(AIM)
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