More than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, BBC reported ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54877202 ), citing state media.

The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an "execution ground", where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said.

The beheadings are the latest in a series of gruesome attacks that the militants have carried out in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017.

Up to 2,000 people have been killed and about 430,000 have been left homeless in the conflict in the mainly-Muslim province.