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5:16 CAT | 29 Sep 2022
The commander-general of the Mozambican police has announced the deaths of 16 alleged terrorists in the last 72 hours in Cabo Delgado province, plagued by armed attacks since 2017.
“On Wednesday 16 terrorists were buried who died from injuries caused by the weapons of the defence and security forces, as well as snakes, lions and even crocodiles,” Bernardino Rafael said.
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The commander-general was speaking during a visit to the village of Nathuco, in Quissanga district in Cabo Delgado, where armed groups set fire to 12 houses on Sunday.
No one was injured in the attack, he said, adding that some residents would be trained to “defend the village.
Rafael also presented four people who were supposedly recruiting young people to join “the ranks of the terrorists”.
“This is a recruiter and radicaliser. He deceived many young people into joining the ranks of the terrorists,” the commander-general said as he introduced one of the recruiters.
Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorised since 2017 by armed violence, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.
The insurgency has led to a military response since a year ago with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects, but new waves of violence have emerged south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.
There are about 800,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and about 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
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