Aid Worker Ambushed, Killed In Mozambique: French NGO
Muhammad Irfan Published November 23, 2022 | 09:00 AM
Johannesburg, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Nov, 2022 ) :An aid worker with a French NGO Solidarites Internationale has been killed in an ambush by an armed group in Mozambique's restive northern province of Cabo Delgado, the organisation said Tuesday.
The aid agency said in a statement that its members "are in a state of shock at the news of the death of one of their colleagues, in an attack perpetrated by an armed group on Sunday," along a road in the district from Muidumbe to Palma.
The weekend attack victim was a Mozambican and in his 30s, a spokeswoman for the Paris-based NGO told AFP.
Other people were killed in the incident, she said while adding that she had no further details.
Mozambican news site Zitamar reported five deaths, including the head of Palma police operations, his wife and nephew, as well as the aid worker.
"The local official was travelling privately from Pemba to Palma, returning from the weekend, to join Solidarites International's distribution activities," when the car he was travelling in was targeted.
The coastal town of Palma was hit in a deadly raid in March last year, forcing French oil giant TotalEnergies to halt its $20 billion LNG project.
The French NGO, which is present in 23 countries went into Cabo Delgado to provide water, sanitation, emergency shelter and food assistance following a surge in violence.
The insurgency erupted in October 2017 when fighters -- since proclaimed to be affiliated to the Islamic State group -- attacked coastal areas close to the Tanzanian border.
More than 3,000 forces from Rwanda and southern African countries deployed last year have since helped Mozambique push the militants out of their strongholds.
But the militant nightmare remains very far from over, despite the military gains.
The conflict has so far claimed more than 4,400 lives, around 2,000 of them civilians, according to global conflict tracking organisation Acled. Around a million people have fled their homes.
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