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UNITA rebels kill 15

    JOHANNESBURG

    At least 15 people were burned to death and another 10 seriously wounded in a UNITA rebel attack on two trucks carrying passengers in northern Angola, the Spanish news agency EFE reported on Thursday. The police said that the attack on the trucks, which were torched, took place early on Thursday on the Nzaje-Kambulo highway, which crosses the diamond-rich Kossa region in Luanda province.

    The police attributed the attack to unidentified assailants, but several survivors told an Angolan radio station that the attackers were UNITA guerrillas looking for food and clothing. The victims were stripped of their clothes and jewellery. In a separate incident, military officials said that an attack by UNITA guerrillas took place between the town of Bie and Catabola, in the central province of Bie, leaving three dead.

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