The Spanish nun

Ángeles López

has escaped this past night from

the terrorist attack perpetrated in the town of Nacala

(

Mozambique

) against the mission in which she was participating and during which

an 83-year-old Italian nun was murdered

.

As reported by the

Comboni Missionaries

, an order to which both the deceased religious and the Spanish belonged, the attack took place on Tuesday night, when

the terrorists attacked the community of Chipene

, in the diocese of Nacala, which

housed hundreds of people. fleeing the fighting in the north of the country

.

"The rebels attacked the mission, setting fire to all the parish works.

Sister Maria De Coppi

, an Italian missionary,

died during the ambush

. All the survivors are now fleeing to Nacala," they explained.

Ángeles López, 82 years old and born in Sangonera la Verde

(

Murcia

), and another Italian nun

managed to escape the attack and hide in the woods

, along with a group of girls, as explained by the secretary general of the Comboni Sisters in Italy,

Enza Carini

.

However, the Comboni Missionaries in Spain have not been able to confirm this and

are awaiting news from the Spanish nun

, who has been in Mozambique for 55 years as a missionary.

According to news sent to the missionary agency Fides,

the attackers destroyed the structures of the mission, including the church, the hospital and the primary and secondary school

and Italian religious was shot in the head when trying to reach the bedroom where the few remaining students.

In a statement, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) has reported that

the Spanish nun had already told her sisters in the congregation about the attacks that were taking place in the area

.

"About 10 kilometers from the mission,

the guerrillas had burned a village

, murdered people and had created enough fear and terror for thirty more villages to be emptied. Although the sisters' home closed its doors and the girls had been transferred to a safe place,

the missionary stated that they had no intention of abandoning the mission

", she pointed out.

The province of Nampula, together with that of Cabo Delgado, is a victim of the instability caused by the presence of terrorist groups linked to the Islamic State.

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