affecting many districts. this is the first major attack impacting foreign workers. distant gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire. we started getting shot at. they were shooting at us over the wall, so we all were lying on the floor and just keeping our heads down. gunfire. we did not have one military guy there. we had no weapons. it wasjust us, with our hands, sitting there. so now you what s going through your head? 0k, these people are coming, and what?
and i started to panic. eventually at about nine o clock that night, greg phoned me from a satellite phone and said that we re safe, they re in the amarula, they re going to get evacuated. they were underfire from more than 100 militants, known locally as al shabaab, who are affiliated with isis. all cheer. an islamist insurgency had been spreading across the impoverished cabo delgado region since 2017. what began with small, scattered hits had grown into bigger, more organised and brutal assaults affecting many districts. this is the first major attack impacting foreign workers. gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire.
affecting many districts. this is the first major attack impacting foreign workers. gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire. we started getting shot at. they were shooting at us over the wall, so we all were lying on the floor and just keeping our heads down. gunfire. we did not have one military guy there. we had no weapons. it wasjust us, with our hands, sitting there. so now you what s going through your head? 0k, these people are coming, and what? am i going to be killed like an animal?
distant gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire. we started getting shot at. they were shooting at us over the wall, so we all were lying on the floor and just keeping our heads down. gunfire. we did not have one military guy there. we had no weapons. it wasjust us, with our hands, sitting there. so now you what s going through your head? 0k, these people are coming, and what? am i going to be killed like an animal? is my head going to be cut off? are my arms and my body going to be cut in pieces? as they advanced towards the hotel, the insurgents had been
and brutal assaults affecting many districts. this is the first major attack impacting foreign workers. gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire. we started getting shot at. they were shooting at us over the wall, so we all were lying on the floor and just keeping our heads down. gunfire. we did not have one military guy there. we had no weapons. it wasjust us, with our hands, sitting there. so now you what s going through your head?