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More civilians attacked

    JOHANNESBURG

    Two brothers were killed and two women wounded at villages west of Rundu near the Angolan border on Tuesday when men armed with assault rifles launched pre-dawn attacks, ‘The Namibian’ reported.

    The report said the two brothers were from the Gcwayi village while an elderly woman and a crippled girl were from the neighbouring Manyondo village. The report added that 16 people were abducted in the attacks on the two villages - believed to have been carried out by members of the Angolan rebel movement, UNITA.

    Nearly 40 Namibians have been killed in the cross-border raids since President Sam Nujoma’s government last November allowed Angolan soldiers to use Namibian territory to pursue UNITA rebels from their bases in the southern parts of the war-torn country.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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