Suspected Islamist militants have killed four people in Mozambique's northern Macomia district in fresh attacks that could pose a threat to relief efforts following last week's powerful cyclone, a local journalist said Saturday.
Aid is loaded onto a World Food Programme helicopter to be deliver to Ibo Island and Quissanga in northern Mozambique on April 30 , 2019. - Heavy rain battered northern Mozambique on April 29, 2019, as residents and relief workers confronted devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth, the strongest cyclone to ever hit Africa, which killed 38 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
“Alleged terrorists attacked Ntapuala and Banga Velha villages in the Macomia district where they killed a teacher who was on a motorcycle and burned three other people,” the journalist. Aid agencies have in recent days been delivering aid to the cyclone survivors, but the attacks could hamper those efforts.
Sections of gas-rich northern Mozambique have been hard hit by deadly raids by a jihadist group over the past 18 months with at least 200 people killed.
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