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5:02 CAT | 22 Jan 2021
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Three people have been killed after an armed attack on a vehicle with passengers and goods in Pundanhar, Cabo Delgado, on Tuesday, local sources told Lusa, adding it was the second raid on the same road in a few days.
The dropside van was travelling 200 kilometres along the dirt road between Mueda and Palma, the village of the natural gas projects, and was transporting drums of petrol for sale.
Three bodies remained at the place where the car was burned, less than 50 kilometres from Palma, while other occupants fled, according to witnesses.
On Saturday, on the same route, at least six people died and others disappeared, including a child, after an attack on three vehicles in a caravan of five, carrying passengers and goods bound for Palma, the same local sources reported.
One of the vehicles and its cargo was stolen by the attackers, while the other two were set alight.
Located in the far north of Mozambique, bordering Tanzania, it is the only land road used to link Palma with the rest of the country, after the main road – the only paved one, which passes through Mocímboa da Praia and Macomia – was abandoned due to increased attacks and rebel movement in 2020.
Even so, after Tuesday’s attack, no more vehicles were travelling on that road through Pundanhar and Nangade, Palma residents report.
Similar attacks occurred on the same road in December and September 2020.
The armed violence in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, is causing a humanitarian crisis with around 2,000 deaths and 560,000 displaced people, without housing or food, mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, Pemba.
The province has been under insurgent attack for three years and some of the incursions have been claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group since 2019.
Source: Lusa
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