The group has links to Somalia’s Al Shabaab terror group.

The insurgents decapitated another victim on the day before the police operation in Cabo Delgado province which is the centre of Mozambique’s emerging natural gas industry.

Police say the jihadis were killed near the two small villages where they decapitated ten victims including children.

More details of the operation are expected to be revealed today.

Cabo Delgado has seen a number of deadly attacks by suspected radical Islamists since October.

More than 300 people suspected of having ties to the group have been arrested since then, with more than a third still held, according to the authorities.

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