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Islamist militants behead more than 50 people in Mozambique

Islamist militants behead more than 50 people in Mozambique

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN one of the most gruesome killings, Islamic militants have attacked a village in northern Mozambique, beheaded more than 50 people, chopped up the bodies of victims and set their homes alight. According to reports, the victims were rounded up and taken to a football field where they were killed. Their dismembered bodies were found scattered across a forest not far from the field. According to the BBC, the militants' gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar' as they raided a village and abducted some of its women, while others slaughtered victims in nearby Muatide. The attack is the latest…
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Six in custody over Nice church attack in France

Six in custody over Nice church attack in France

TWO more men were arrested in connection with a knife attack that left three dead at a church in Nice, bringing the number of people in custody to six as investigators look at the suspected assailant's last known contacts, a French police source said. The latest arrests took place on Saturday, the source said. An assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice on Thursday, in France's second deadly knife attack in two weeks with a suspected Islamist motive. The suspected attacker, a 21-year-old from Tunisia, was shot…
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Three dead as woman beheaded in attack in French church

Three dead as woman beheaded in attack in French church

TANGI SALAUN and ERIC GAILLARD A knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) has beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice. A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect important French sites, such as places of worship and schools. Speaking from the scene, he said France had been attacked "over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief". "And I say it…
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