Terrorists Ambush Dozens of Foreign Experts North Mozambique

Extremist Islamists have ambushed a convoy of 17 vehicles boarding dozens of foreign experts in north Mozambique in east Africa, according to Times Live, a South African news website today, Saturday.

The news website published a report that says that the foreign experts were in a mega project for oil and liquidated natural gas run by the French company, Total.

The foreigners fled a hotel in Palma city where they sheltered there but the   extremist gunmen surrounded the hotel.

The oil experts escaped and boarded 17 vehicles but only 7 ones could flee the ambush.

The South African news website quoted a security local source as saying that there a number of the dead and the missing.

Eyewitnesses said that bodies of the dead scattered on the streets of Palma and on the beach of the city next to the Indian Ocean.

On the other hand, security reports indicated that some of the bodies were decapitated.

On its part, Pinnacle News, a Portuguese-spoken local website, revealed that dozens of civilians were decapitated and more than twenty-one security personnel were also killed by gunmen affiliated with ISIS (known as Daesh).

The terrorists assaulted Palma city days ago from three points.

However, an official at the Ministry of Defense in Mozambique said the gunmen attacked Palma for the third day in a row.

The population of the wretched city attempting to flee to safer areas after cutting communications.

The international companies working in the city complained they couldn't contact their staff via cellular phones attached to satellites because the employees hide in the hotel of Palma de Amarola outside the city where a mega project for liquated natural gas.

Local sources revealed that hundreds of inhabitants of the city escaped to near areas as appealed to the county's government to transfer them to safe-havens.

Col. Omar Saranja, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in Mozambique, said that the army and security personnel are working incessantly to restore safety and order to the city and ensure safety for local residents and economic projects.