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Suspected ISIS-linked extremists have decapitated a Christian pastor before handing his severed head to his wife to show authorities in Mozambique.
The killing, reported by local news, took place in the country’s gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Last Wednesday, the man’s widow carried a sack containing the head of her husband to the district police headquarters, according to the BBC who cited military sources.
She was ordered to inform the authorities of her husband’s killing by the suspected Islamic State-linked insurgents, who found the pastor in a field, she told police.
The woman, a resident of Nova Zambezia, told officials that the attackers kidnapped her husband from the farm before beheading him.
Speaking on Thursday, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi Thursday stressed that his country had witnessed fewer jihadist attacks this year than last, after Rwanda and neighbouring countries helped tackle the four-year insurgency.
The Cabo Delgado province has been rocked by attacks by Islamic State-linked militants since 2017, killing at least 3,340 people and displacing more than 800,000….
Suspected ISIS-linked extremists have decapitated a Christian pastor before handing his severed head to his wife to show authorities in Mozambique.
The killing, reported by local news, took place in the country’s gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Last Wednesday, the man’s widow carried a sack containing the head of her husband to the district police headquarters, according to the BBC who cited military sources.
She was ordered to inform the authorities of her husband’s killing by the suspected Islamic State-linked insurgents, who found the pastor in a field, she told police.
The woman, a resident of Nova Zambezia, told officials that the attackers kidnapped her husband from the farm before beheading him.
Speaking on Thursday, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi Thursday stressed that his country had witnessed fewer jihadist attacks this year than last, after Rwanda and neighbouring countries helped tackle the four-year insurgency.
The Cabo Delgado province has been rocked by attacks by Islamic State-linked militants since 2017, killing at least 3,340 people and displacing more than 800,000….
