sniffles. so, i said goodbye to him and thank you for saving all of our lives. we then left him in the car and we ran into the bush. and then we hid in that bush and thick undergrowth for two days. four days after the attacks began, wesley and greg were finally rescued by lionel s pilots. they landed a small plane next to my brother and ijust held his hand the whole flight back. 17 vehicles left the amarula. it s estimated six didn t make it. jorge and tobias made it to the shore and were evacuated by boat.
i love you, bro. love you, my man. that morning, her sons wesley and adrian were at the building site with their dad, greg. we build camps all over africa. we re contractors. we d been working in mozambique for a long time, so we had a big mozambican workforce. jorge was also in parma that day. like many mozambicans, he had come to the town looking for work. located in northern mozambique, palma was booming because of a $20 billion gas project being built by french energy giant total. works had been suspended
i m catherine byaruhanga. i ve travelled to hear the extraordinary accounts of those who survived. this was a particular form of brutality that i ve never seen anywhere and i ve been in a lot of wars. ..and to find out if these shores are becoming the new frontline in the spread of the islamic state group. in the morning, greg always gave me a morning call. at home in south africa, mum meryl kept in daily contact with her two sons and their dad, who were working in mozambique. i think they all just loved the life in mozambique beautiful people and beautiful beaches.
that morning, greg sent me two pictures of the clouds over palma that day and the clouds over pemba. i thought that looks a bit ominous . we were all working normally and one of our guys got a phone call that stuff was happening and could not say much but that they are attacking palma. wesley began to film on his phone. gunfire. once it started, itjust didn t stop. go, go, go, go, go! go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
as the attackers swept through town, they targeted key sites like banks, food shops and phone masts. i tried to get hold of all of them on their cellphones, nobody was answering, 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