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Seven die in terrorist attack in Nangade
[POPTEL.ORG.UK] Seven people died on 6 January when an gang attacked a pick-up truck in Nangade district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in the online edition of the daily newspaper "O Pais".The truck was carrying passengers from the town of Palma to the administrative post of Pundanhar in Nangade. The attackers, believed to be Islamic fundamentalists, opened fire, forcing the vehicle to stop. They ordered all the occupants to step out of the truck. The forces of Evil then beheaded the driver, and used machetes to kill six passengers, most of them women. On 5 January, the bully boyz attacked the village of Mussemuku in the mainland part of Ibo district. There are no reports of any casualties from this raid. Local sources told "O Pais" that the Mozambican defence and security forces captured several krazed killers. Meanwhile journalist Amade Abubakar, detained on 5 January in Macomia district, has been transferred to a military prison in Mueda, 300 kilometres from Macomia. Abubakar works for the Macomia community radio station, and strings for the Zitamar news agency. Cited by "O Pais", his father, Abubakar Artur, said that, despite contacting the Macomia district government and police command, he did not know where his son was being held or why he had been incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! . The state-owned Mass Communications Institute (ICS), which owns the Macomia radio, also had no idea why Abubakar had been picked up. The Cabo Delgado ICS delegate, Paulo Cazimoto, said "our journalist was detained, but we have no details about the case. Despite approaching the authorities, we also don’t know his whereabouts". Eye-witnesses report that, immediately prior to his detention, Abubakar had been photographing households fleeing from the interior of the district into Macomia town, escaping from terrorist raids. There is no Mozambican law forbidding journalists, or anybody else, from taking photographs in public places. In this case, Abubakar was merely documenting something that is already well known ‐ the exodus of peasant families from rural Macomia, because of terrorist raids. The terrorist attacks began in October 2017 in the district of Mocimboa da Praia. Subsequently the raids have spread to the districts of Macomia, Nangade and Palma. Posted by: Fred 2019-01-17 |
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