An Italian nun, Sister Maria De Coppi,
was killed in a terrorist attack in Chipene, Mozambique, late on
Tuesday, her religious order, the Comboni Missionary Sisters,
said on Wednesday.
The order said the terrorists raided the mission, killed De
Coppi, and set fire to mission's church, the nuns' homes, the
hospital and its equipment.
It said two other nuns, one Italian and another Spanish, managed
to escape and hide in a forest with a group of young people.
It said the order was trying to get the survivors evacuated with
the help of the Italian foreign ministry's crisis unit.
Another Catholic body, the Centro Missionario Concordia
Pordenone, said two priests serving at the mission, Loris
Vignandel and Lorenzo Barro, had managed to get away too and
were alive.
De Coppi had been in Mozambique since 1963.
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