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Insurgents kill eight persons, burn down 70 houses in Cabo Delgado – Mozambique
2:43 CAT | 12 Sep 2019
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Two insurgent attacks took place in Cabo Delgado’s Muidumbe and Macomia districts between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday (September 10).
Over the course of 14 hours, eight people were executed, including seven members of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR). In addition, four women and dozens of children were kidnapped and 70 houses reduced to ashes.
The first attack took place in the district of Muidumbe, where about ten insurgents stormed the village of Mengueleua, in Chitunda administrative post, and ambushed eight citizens.
The incident occurred at around 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday (10 September), when the victims were already at work in their smallholdings. One victim was quartered, two women were kidnapped and one man was shot but escaped and is currently receiving treatment at the local hospital. The rest escaped unharmed, the Bulletin has learned.
At about 7:00 p.m. on the same day, three groups of insurgents attacked Mitacata village, less than 1 km from the Quiterajo Administrative Post in Macomia district. The insurgents burned down about 70 houses, vandalised the Quiterajo primary school, set fire to the hospital burning an elderly man inside, and kidnapped two teenage girls.
According to the report, the insurgents executed seven men from the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) who were protecting the post and were unable to repulse the raid and torched one armoured and two Mahindra vehicles.
The insurgents also attacked a merchant’s truck and seized various goods.
Sources heard by the Bulletin this morning report that, of Quiterajo, only terror and ashes seem to remain.
“I have no head for details, nothing is left,” one source said, preferring silence to reporting the scenes of horror.
The insurgents attacked the village of Mitacata the same day the Macomia district administrator was campaigning at the administrative post for Frelimo. There was strong campaigning there throughout the day, the attacks only taking place at night.
This is the second wave of attacks since the start of the election campaign in Cabo Delgado and comes at a time when President Filipe Nyusi and Frelimo candidate are campaigning in neighbouring Nampula province.
Source: 2019 General Elections - Mozambique Political Process Bulletin in Mozambique, 11 September
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