Gunmen kill 8 workers
Gunmen ambushed and killed eight employees of a private construction firm working on the multi-billion-dollar gas project in Mozambique’s restive north, the company said Sunday.
Northern Mozambique has been hit by a jihadist insurgency since 2017 that has killed more than 1,000 people and complicated the country’s plans to develop its offshore gas reserves.
But attacks on workers involved in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project development have so far been rare.
Fenix Constructions Service Lda, subcontracted by French oil giant Total, said five gunmen wearing military fatigues similar to those worn by the Mozambique government forces staged the attack in late June. Three of the 14 occupants in the vehicle survived and another three are still missing.
Former Nazi guard trial
The prosecution’s closing arguments will be heard on Monday in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.
In what could be one of the last such cases of surviving
Nazi guards, Bruno Dey stands accused of complicity in the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland.
Dey, who has appeared in court in a wheelchair, denies bearing any guilt for what happened at the camp, insisting that he did not join the SS voluntarily.
But prosecutors argue that his involvement was crucial to the killings.
Rocket fired at airport
A rocket landed near Baghdad airport overnight but did not explode, an Iraqi security source said in a statement, after two other rocket attacks targeted American diplomatic and military installations at the weekend.
However, the Iraqi army said early Monday that no rocket had been fired.
American soldiers are based at the airport.
Since October, US diplomats and troops across Iraq have been targeted in around three dozen missile attacks blamed by Washington on proIranian armed factions.
Late June, in the first move of its kind, elite Iraqi troops arrested more than a dozen Tehran-backed fighters allegedly planning a new attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone.
Iran builds missile cities
Tehran has built underground “missile cities” along the Gulf coastline, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy chief said on Sunday.
“Iran has established underground onshore and offshore missile cities all along the coasts of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that would be a nightmare for Iran’s enemies,” Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri told the Sobh-e Sadeq weekly.