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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today the existence of a Portuguese citizen wounded in a rescue operation in Palma, Mozambique, a village attacked by armed rebels since Wednesday, which now seeks to identify other Portuguese to provide support.
In response to the Lusa agency, the ministry explains that the Portuguese was taken from the Afungi peninsula to receive additional medical treatment and that “the embassy in Maputo is monitoring the situation and seeking to identify other Portuguese in the place to provide follow-up and support. “.
A Portuguese man was seriously injured in a rescue operation in Palma next to the natural gas projects in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, two sources who follow the situation told Lusa.
The injured man is going to Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, 250 kilometers to the south, by air, from the airfield of the site of the natural gas project, on the Afungi peninsula, where he was rescued along with others.
Some 200 have taken refuge in the Amarula hotel in Palma since Wednesday afternoon, when the armed attack on the town began.
Among them are workers of various nationalities linked to the companies that work on the natural gas project led by the French oil company Total.
Rescue operations for the hotel began on Thursday within the Total Oil protected compound, six kilometers away, actions that continued on Friday, when one of the caravans was attacked, a source accompanying the operations informed Lusa.
At that time, seven deaths were reported, but the same source said today that the number of victims is still uncertain.
A neighbor who, along with others, fled Palma, told Lusa on Friday that the bodies of murdered adults and children are visible on the streets of the district headquarters.
An untold number of people have been fleeing to the Afungi Peninsula since Wednesday, following the attack that on Friday entered the third day of fighting.
The Mozambique National Human Rights Commission requested this Friday support for the rescue of some 600 state officials who are near Palma.
The attack is the most serious with gas projects after three and a half years of armed insurgency from which the district headquarters has so far been spared.
The violence is causing a humanitarian crisis with almost 700,000 displaced and more than 2,000 dead.
ISIS claimed some of the raids between June 2019 and November 2020, but the source of the attacks remains under investigation.
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