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Dozens of people were reported to have been killed or wounded early on Sunday when suspected UNITA rebels launched a pre-dawn raid on the town of Santa Clara along the country's southern border with Namibia, news reports said.
"A band of Unita soldiers - said to number about 100 - attacked a section of Santa Clara called Omutaku at about 4:30 a.m. (03:30 gmt) yesterday. Shells hit sections of the border settlement and army and police bases at the town until about 7:00 a.m.," said the independent daily, 'The Namibian'. "Many
people were killed in the shelling and in subsequent killings in the town itself, where people were reportedly shot and bayonetted to death."
In fighting which could be heard from the the Namibian side of the border according to eyewitnesses quoted by the newspaper, some people were also reportedly beheaded by the rebels. Hundreds of the town's residents fled across the border, and scores were being treated in Namibian clinics, it
said.
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