At least six Mozambicans beheaded, Italian nun shot dead by insurgents
MAPUTO (Reuters) -A minimum of six folks have been beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities stated on Wednesday.
Talking within the resort city of Xai Xai north of the capital Maputo, President Filipe Nyusi stated the insurgents unleashed a killing spree as they fled from troopers from Mozambique, Rwanda and the Southern African Growth Group (SADC) despatched to deal with the violence.
The insurgency is concentrated in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado and has claimed 1000’s of lives because it broke out in 2017, disrupting multibillion-dollar pure fuel tasks.
“On the sixth of September, because of terrorist assaults, six residents have been beheaded, three kidnapped, six terrorists have been captured and dozens of homes torched within the districts of Erati and Memba, Nampula province,” Nyusi stated.
In response to media experiences, confirmed by Nampula province Secretary of State Mety Gondola, an 83-year-old Italian nun, who lived within the metropolis of Nacala, was shot in an assault on Tuesday night time, whereas two different missionaries managed to flee.
Gondola gave no additional particulars on the assault however stated the scenario was worrisome.
The Portuguese Information company Lusa stated the nun, who was shot within the head, belonged to the order of the Comboni Missionary Sisters and had been working in Mozambique since 1963.
Islamic State claimed duty for the killing of 4 Christians together with an Italian nun throughout a raid on a village within the Nampula province on Tuesday, the militant group stated on an affiliated Telegram channel on Wednesday.
The group additionally claimed that its members burnt a church, a number of buildings and two autos alongside different properties linked to a Christian mission within the village.
The assertion stated the nun “went too far in spreading Christianity”.
(Reporting by Manuel Mucari in Maputo and Mahmoud Mourad in CairoWriting by Anait MiridzhanianEditing by James Macharia Chege, Alexandra Hudson and Jonathan Oatis)
