{"id":79809,"date":"2025-03-20T23:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:14:55","slug":"terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists murder and burn in Meluco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>A group of Islamist terrorists on Monday invaded the Muaguide administrative post, Meluco district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where they murdered one person and burned down houses.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources cited by the independent newsheet \u201cCarta de Moc\u0327ambique\u201d, the attack took place in Iba village, when the residents, who depend on agriculture, were preparing to go to their fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey killed one person in Iba and captured a woman in the fields of Muaguide. In Iba, they entered in the morning, at eight o\u2019clock. It\u2019s a scene of war in the whole area. But the woman was later released by the terrorists\u201d, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists also burnt down more than 50 huts and stole goods, especially foodstuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Some sources regretted the weak intervention of both Mozambican and Rwandan forces, which have been operating in the region.<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago, a terrorist group also carried out violent acts that resulted in deaths and the looting of property from the residents of Ravia locality, Meluco district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mozambique<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. A group of Islamist terrorists on Monday invaded the Muaguide administrative post, Meluco district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where they murdered one person and burned down houses. According to sources cited by the independent newsheet \u201cCarta de Moc\u0327ambique\u201d, the attack took place in Iba village, when the residents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":79808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-79809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Terrorists murder and burn in Meluco - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A group of Islamist terrorists on Monday invaded the Muaguide administrative post, Meluco district, in the northern Moza ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorists murder and burn in Meluco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of Islamist terrorists on Monday invaded the Muaguide administrative post, Meluco district, in the northern Moza ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-20T23:42:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-29T23:14:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/03\/sm_1742503320.403903.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1124\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"684\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Terrorists murder and burn in Meluco\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-20T23:42:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-29T23:14:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/03\/sm_1742503320.403903.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/terrorists-murder-and-burn-in-meluco\",\"name\":\"Terrorists murder and burn in Meluco - 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