Mozambique’s Defense and Security Forces (FDS) have reported killing 8 members of an alleged al Shabaab group. The members were eliminated in the district of Palma in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado.
The FDS said that the ambush was based on intelligence gathered from members of the public after which they were able to ambush the 8 belonging to a deadly cell. At the site where the eight members of the radical Islamist group were killed, an AK47 gun and machetes they used to behead people were found.
The members of the group are from the self-proclaimed Al-Shabab group, which has been launching sporadic attacks against police and civilians since last October, causing terror and displacement in several districts of Cabo Delgado.
Known locally as al-Shabab, the group was formed in 2015 as a religious organization and has no known links to the Al-Shabab group based in Eastern Africa.
