Mozambique: Horrific attacks on children in Cabo Delgado
Save the Children, has been listening to horrifying scenes of murder and grief told by displaced families in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
Paul Samasumo – Vatican City
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Save the Children, mothers have told the Aid agency, children as young as 11 are being beheaded, by militants, in Mozambique’s troubled Cabo Delgado province. The conflict in the region has displaced thousands.
Traumatised mothers
One mother spoke of her eldest child being beheaded near to where she was hiding with her other three children.
“That night, our village was attacked, and houses were burned. When it all started, I was at home with my four children. We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him. We couldn’t do anything because we would be killed too,” the distraught mother told