Islamist militants have beheaded more than 50 people, chopped up the bodies of victims and abducted women in a gruesome attack in Mozambique.
The bodies of
dismembered victims were found scattered across a forest clearing on Monday
after a football pitch was turned into an 'execution ground'.
At least 15
boys were among the dead, and some of the victims were teenagers taking part in
a male initiation ceremony, it is believed.
The attack is
the latest in a growing wave of jihadist violence in Mozambique by extremists
linked to ISIS.
Some of the
gunmen are said to have chanted 'Allahu Akbar' when they raided a village and
abducted some of its women, while others slaughtered victims in nearby Muatide,
according to BBC News.
'Police
learned of the massacre committed by the insurgents through reports of people
who found corpses in the woods,' said an officer in the Mueda district.
'It was
possible to count 20 bodies spread over an area of about 500 metres (yards),'
he added.
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