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Mozambique: Terrorists Attack Mucojo Again
[All Africa] Islamist faceless myrmidons attacked Nambo and Pangane, two villages in the Mucojo administrative post, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, between Friday and Monday, reports Wednesday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocambique".The raiders murdered ten people, three in Nambo and seven in Pangane. Two Mozambican soldiers were among the dead in Pangane.The faceless myrmidons also kidnapped 60 people in Pangane and two in Nambo. They set houses, shops and vehicles on fire, including two vehicles of the defence and security forces. People displaced from their homes in the villages fled to the district capital, Macomia town, and to Matemo island, off the coast. This was the second attack on Mucojo in the space of a fortnight. Between 30 September and 6 October, the faceless myrmidons occupied several Mucojo villages and the headquarters of the administrative post, where they flew the black flag of the international terror organization that calls itself "Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... According to a second newssheet, "Mediafax", the faceless myrmidons attacked in force, greatly outnumbering the members of the defence and security forces, whose two positions were overwhelmed. Local sources said the faceless myrmidons murdered, vandalised and looted, making it clear to the residents that they wanted nobody to stay in Mucojo. They even gave some elderly villagers money to catch buses to leave, telling them "Go to Maputo and stay with your President Nyusi". Nonetheless, one vehicle braved the 70 kilometre road from Mucojo to Macomia town on Friday (before the second attack). The occupants of the vehicle found the jihadists had placed barricades of tree trunks at ten points along the road. One person who travelled in this vehicle said "the car left from Naunde village and went to Macomia town. They didn't burn it because the car was hidden in the bush, and the gunnies didn't see it". People who had slept in the bush piled into the vehicle, and left the village deserted. Others fled from the faceless myrmidons on foot. 43 year old Maquina Selemene said she had walked with her two children, one aged seven and the other ten, from Mucojo to Macomia town. The journey, she said, took six days and nights without anything to eat or drink. She had walked through the bush to avoid being spotted by the terrorists. From Macomia, she travelled on to her cousin's house in the bucolic provincial capital, Pemba. Related: Cabo Delgado: 2020-10-04 Inside ISIS' new capital as terrorists carry out beheadings and take sex slaves Cabo Delgado: 2020-08-30 ISIS spreading in Africa, seizes a city in Mozambique Cabo Delgado: 2020-07-19 Mozambican Authorities Arrest 15 ISCAP Posted by: Fred 2020-10-16 |
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