Dozens of people have been killed and many more are still missing following the coordinated attack. The ongoing insurgency had already displaced nearly 700 000 people in the gas-rich province, before the latest escalation. Pemba – More than 8 100 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN said on Wednesday, as thousands of others remained stranded. Armed militants raided the coastal town on 24 March, ransacking buildings and beheading residents as thousands fled into surrounding forest. Dozens have been killed and many more are still missing in a coordinated attack seen as the biggest escalation of an Islamist