Islamist militants execute scores in Mozambique

Heavily armed Islamist militants have beheaded at least 50 people including women in Mozambique, the BBC reports.

The militants, according to the report, turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground” where they decapitated and chopped the bodies of helpless victims in the area.

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Several people were also beheaded in another village.

Last weekend’s attack was probably the worst carried out by militants in the Southern African country.

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