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12:54 CAT | 13 Dec 2024
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People from Miangalewa, in Cabo Delgado province, in northern Mozambique, told Lusa on Friday that a group of armed rebels attacked the town, causing locals to flee.
The attack took place around 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. “There was an attack, the terrorists once again challenged the authorities,” a source speaking from the headquarters town of Muidumbe district told Lusa.
There are no reports of deaths, but, in addition to causing the locals to flee, the attack on Miangalewa, almost 300 kilometres from the city of Pemba, affected traffic on National Road 380, with dozens of trucks stopped in the town of Macomia.
“We’ve been here since yesterday [Thursday], the terrorists attacked Miangalewa. We’re in a bad situation,” said a truck driver on his way to Mocimboa da Praia, a coastal town in the north of Cabo Delgado.
After almost 20 hours, and the intervention of the government defence forces and their Rwandan counterparts, traffic was back on track.
Since October 2017, gas-rich Cabo Delgado province has been facing an armed rebellion, with attacks claimed by movements associated with the fundamentalist Islamic State group.
The last major attack took place on 10 and 11 May, at the district headquarters of Macomia, with around a hundred insurgents looting the town, causing several deaths and heavy fighting with the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces and Rwandan military, which has been supporting Mozambique in the fight against the rebels.
Source: Lusa
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