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The general commander of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique said this Friday that the Defense and Security Forces killed a total of 37 terrorists and seized 21 weapons in the last week in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.
The results announced today are the result of the operations of the 7th Battalion of the Defense and Security Forces stationed in Macomia, one of the regions most affected by the incursions of insurgents, Bernardino Rafael told the media, during a visit to the headquarters from that district located 176. kilometers from the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado (Pemba).
According to the general commander of the Mozambique police, in addition to the 37 insurgents killed and the 21 weapons seized, the Defense and Security Forces destroyed three vehicles, 10 motorized vehicles, nine bicycles and 17 boats, means that were used by insurgent groups during their raids. .
“If they try to enter here, they will find a prompt response, like the one you have always given,” the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Mozambique told the military of the 7th Defense and Security Forces Battalion.
On Thursday, the Defense and Security Forces announced that they had killed four insurgents and thwarted an invasion attempt at the headquarters in the town of Mute, near the mega natural gas project in Cabo Delgado.
The town is crossed by the only asphalt road in the area and is located 25 kilometers south of Palma, a coastal town that is the head of the district, and a little less far from the works that are being developed on the Afungi peninsula, where the industrial zone is being built. of natural gas processing in Area 1 of the Rovuma basin, the largest private investment in Africa, in the order of 20 billion euros.
Armed violence in Cabo Delgado began three years ago and is causing a humanitarian crisis with more than 2,000 deaths and 560,000 displaced, without housing or food, concentrated mainly in the provincial capital, Pemba.
Some of the raids have been claimed by the Islamic State ‘jihadist’ group since 2019.
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