Residents in Mandela, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, reported finding the remains of three suspected terrorists near a river in Muidumbe district.
According to local sources, the skeletal remains of three individuals were discovered under a tree along the Nangunha River while people were scouting new areas for artisanal hunting, about 60 kilometers from Muidumbe.
“We saw the bones there in the Nangunha River, in the shade,” a source from Muidumbe said.
Locals suspect that the remains belong to a group of alleged terrorists killed during the 2024 invasion of Mandela village. “When they entered Mandela, there was crossfire. Many of them were injured,” another local source explained.
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Cabo Delgado, a gas-rich province, has been targeted by extremist attacks for eight years, with the first incident recorded on October 5, 2017, in Mocímboa da Praia.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) estimates that in the last two weeks, two violent events occurred in the province, one involving Islamic State-affiliated extremists, resulting in 13 deaths. Since 2017, the insurgency has claimed 6,515 lives.
ACLED’s latest report, covering data from March 9 to 22, indicates that of 2,342 violent events recorded since October 2017, 2,172 involved elements linked to the Islamic State of Mozambique (EIM). These attacks have caused 6,515 deaths over eight and a half years, including the 13 fishermen reportedly killed by military fire, as previously reported by Lusa.
