People from the town of Macomia denounce that in recent days it has been difficult to travel on foot or using transport on the road that gives access to the administrative post of Mucojo, allegedly due to the existence of mines. People told “Carta” that an engineer who was passing along the road stepped on a mine that exploded, and he lost his life. The incident occurred in the early hours of last Thursday, very close to the village of Napala, administrative post of Mucojo. “People have been going to Mucojo, but since last week the movement has reduced in both directions, because in the Napala area they discovered that there are mines on the road. One person stepped on it and died”, narrated Pinto Saide, resident in the Nanga A neighborhood. Saide, who has also gone fishing in Mucojo, also said that, that day, the victim’s companions also suffered minor injuries “because the victim was not alone. So, these people were injured, but they did not suffer much”. So far, it is not known who placed the explosives in that section. “We don’t know if it was the terrorists or not, because our forces also went there. Maybe the leaders know something”, concluded Saide. According to our sources, people’s greatest concern is the fact that the explosives were “seeded” in a section usually used by fishermen who, outside the law, come and go from the Mucojo administrative post. Because of this, people are forced to use alternative routes to get to and from that administrative division, even though it is very risky. It should be noted that, although the Administrator of Macomia, Tomás Badae, considered those living in Mucojo as collaborators with the terrorists, for refusing to leave the area, the fact is that civilians still live in that region. They claim that they are unable to leave the region due to the scarcity of food in the host locations. (Letter) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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