Angolan troops have found an arms dump containing some 7,900 60 mm shells and 370 crates of other ammunition in the area around Kuito, one of the most war-ravaged towns in the country, news reports said on Monday.
The ammunition was left behind by UNITA rebels when they fled before a government offensive which began in late 1998, the military told the official ‘Jornal de Angola’. Quoting the journal, AFP reported that soldiers also found about 1,000 rocket-propelled grenades at Kalussinga, which lies about 200 km from Kuito, the capital of the central Bie Province.
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