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Mozambique: 180 workers trapped in a hotel during [Islamist] rebel attack | Mozambique

More than 180 people, including expatriates, were trapped in hotels in the north of Mozambique, A town that has been attacked by armed groups for three days.

According to trapped workers, troops were trying to safely airlift workers from the town of Parma near the billion-dollar gas site on the Ahungi Peninsula in Cabo-delgado on Friday.

Jihad militants launched an attack on a coastal town Wednesday afternoon, fleeing horrified inhabitants to the surrounding forests, forcing LNG workers to seek refugees at the Amarula Hotel.

The government of the country said soldiers launched an attack to repel radical [Islamist] fighters from the town, which is the hub of a huge gas project.

“Almost the entire town has been destroyed. Many have died,” he said. A worker at the LNG site spoke on the phone after being rescued by Ahungi on Friday night. He did not reveal details of the casualties or their nationality. “When the locals fled to the bushes, LNG company workers, including foreigners, evacuated to Hotel Amarula, waiting for them to be rescued,” he asked not to be named. I did.

Another worker at a company subcontracted by Energy Company Total said the helicopter flew over the hotel on Friday in an attempt to find a “corridor to rescue about 180 people trapped in the hotel.” .. “But until dawn, many stayed on the premises while the militants were trying to move towards the hotel,” he said.

In an unidentified short video clip shared on social media, an unidentified man filmed a hotel lobby and several people paraded around the patio. With a chopper buzzing in the background, he described Parma’s situation as “serious.” “I don’t know if we’ll be rescued,” he said, adding that the hotel was short of food but still had water left.

Radicals belonging to Islamic [State].
The group raided villages and towns throughout the state, leaving nearly 700,000 people displaced. According to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a US-based data collection agency, violence killed at least 2,600 people, half of whom were civilians. (read more)

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