Cabo Delgado: Three murdered in area where vehicles were ambushed – Lusa

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Cabo Delgado: Three murdered in area where vehicles were ambushed – Lusa

2:03 CAT | 28 Sep 2020

Three persons were killed while on a bicycle ride between two villages in a remote part of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, on Thursday, local sources told Lusa on Friday.

The incident occurred in the district of Palma near where an attack on vehicles transporting passengers and goods killed 24 people and left several missing on September 12.

Just after noon on Thursday, the three men left Segundo Congresso village to buy provisions in Pundanhar, next to the Rovuma River, which separates Mozambique and Tanzania, but did not return.

On Friday, a group of people found them dead on the few-kilometre stretch of dust road they would have used, and retrieved their bodies.

One other incident was reported at the same time and in the same area.

According to local sources, a vehicle transporting people and goods from Mueda to Palma was attacked and set on fire between Nangade and Pundanhar on Thursday morning.

The dust road through the woods was the only land link still being used to supply Palma with relative safety. This is because insurgent groups made it risky to move south from the village towards Mocímboa da Praia on Cabo Delgado’s only paved road.

The northernmost coastal province of Mozambique, which borders Tanzania, faces a humanitarian crisis with more than 1,000 dead and 250,000 internally displaced after three years of armed conflict between Mozambican and rebel forces, some of whose attacks have been claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group, but whose true origins and motivation remain unclear.

Source: Lusa