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A leading international aid group says children as young as eleven years old are being beheaded by Islamist militants who began their insurgency three years ago in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

The UN says that more than half a million people have been forced from their homes by the violence.

Save the Children say some of the most brutal acts have been against children as well adults. The charity's Country Director in Mozambique is Chance Briggs.

"The insurgents are trying to drive people out; they co-opt young people to join them as conscripts and if they refuse they are killed and sometimes beheaded."

(Photo: An abandoned and destroyed home in Cabo Delgado. Credit: AFP)