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Landmine injures 11 people

    JOHANNESBURG

    Eleven people were injured near the Angolan border at the weekend when an anti-personnel mine exploded in a church in the Kavango region in northern Namibia, news reports said on Monday.

    The reports said the explosion occurred some 60 km west of the Namibian border town of Rundu.

    “I understand that it was one of those make-shift bush churches, and following the collection someone stepped on an anti-personnel mine,” Police Chief Inspector Hophni Hamufungu said. “We suspect once again it was UNITA bandits who planted the landmine, but as yet we cannot confirm this,” he added.

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