![]() ![]() ![]() Located close to a multibillion dollar gas-field development project at Afungi, run by the French energy company Total, the former fishing town has seen new hotels spring up to house foreign workers.Īmong them is the Amarula Lodge, a complex of cabins around a swimming pool close to the beach to which foreign workers fled as the militants closed in and laid siege to the hotel. The militants, who cut telephone lines as they entered Palma, were aware it was a high-value target having attacked it last a year ago. Speaking on Monday to the BBC, Dyck was sharply critical of the lack of a proper evacuation plan for the town, which many saw as an inevitable target of the militants once the rainy season was over, because of the absence of the Mozambican military and the refusal of Total to provide his helicopter crews with much needed fuel. “They completely wreaked havoc, and there was no evacuation plan.” “It was total chaos,” said Lionel Dyck, the founder of the South African private security company Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), which helped evacuate a number of those trapped by helicopter.
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