Mozambique: Forensic team needs to be mobilised to identify corpses in Palma – TVM

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Mozambique: Forensic team needs to be mobilised to identify corpses in Palma – TVM

2:52 CAT | 08 Apr 2021

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Mozambique’s Defence and Security Forces say that a forensic team for the recognition of corpses must be mobilised to the town of Palma as a matter of urgency, in the wake of the terrorist attacks there and across the district, TVM reports.

Twelve bodies were found lying, under a mango tree, outside the Aamarula hotel. They were buried there. The identities of the victims were not ascertained, All that is known is that those persons were ‘white’and that all of them had their hands tied behind their backs and their heads cut off.

“When does the forensic team arrive?”, asks the TVM journliast. “I believe that, at the level of the rearguard, work is being carried out on this sense. I have no data on that yet, maybe because of the communication problem, but I think that the rearguard must be working on this, because it is urgent that a team arrives , in order to establish these small details.,” says Brigadier Chongo Vidigal.

“Is it getting late for that?”, asks the journalist. “Yes, it is getting late, because, as you may see, the bodies are already decomposing,” replies Brigadier Chongo Vidigal, army spokesman for the Northern Operational Theatre.

Thousands of people are still missing, Sky News reported this morning from Palma. According to Sky News, “in the chaos of the attack and amid the indiscriminate killings and mass exodus, there are an estimated 20,000 or more unaccounted for.”

Watch the TVM report below.