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Church vehicles ambushed

The Angolan Press Agency reported yesterday that one person was killed and eight others injured when two Catholic church vehicles came under fire while travelling on the Ganda-Cubal road in Benguela. Quoting an authorised source, the agency said the assailants fired at the vehicles at point blank range using RPGs, PKMs and AKMs and looted all the belongings of the 15 occupants of the two vehicles.

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