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New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled

By TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY
Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Aid agencies and local authorities say a surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in northern Mozambique has left more than 70 children missing and caused 100,000 people to flee their homes. There are fears the children may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants. The attacks in Cabo Delgado province may mark a new stage in a crisis that aid agencies say forced more than a million people to flee their homes during nearly seven years of violence. Thousands were killed, and some were beheaded.

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