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Palma attack killed 1,563, second-deadliest terror attack after 9/11, author says
Journalist Alex Perry tells Cape Talk how his survey of survivors counted 1,563 dead in the ISIS attack on Palma, Mozambique.
“Oil and gas. It's the middle of nowhere. There's no infrastructure. And the reason there were thousands of foreign contractors up there was they were building essentially an entire new town in the middle of nowhere to accommodate what would eventually be 15,000 people to work this giant gas plant to tap one of the…”
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Oil and gas. It's the middle of nowhere. There's no infrastructure. And the reason there were thousands of foreign contractors up there was they were building essentially an entire new town in the middle of nowhere to accommodate what would eventually be 15,000 people to work this giant gas plant to tap one of the biggest gas fields in the world. But they were building this in the bush. There's no infrastructure.
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