About 24 people were reportedly killed in a suspected UNITA attack on 5 September on the town of Bongo, about 43 km west of the city of Huambo in the Angolan central highlands. The state-controlled Angop news agency quoted a police source as saying that rebels had set two houses alight and plundered residents’ properties before fleeing.
Meanwhile, at least six people were killed in a separate attack launched by suspected UNITA rebels on Canjala village, 182 km from the city of Benguela on 31 August. A police source told Angop the attack was launched at dawn and that the dead included two women who were fleeing with their children. According to the report this was the second suspected UNITA attack on Canjala in a month.
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