OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.45pm.
UNITA rebels in Angola were on Tuesday shelling the strategic town of Kuito, in the central Bie province, where several dead and wounded were reported.
Shelling continued late into the morning. Numerous people were wounded when the Sao Jose de Clunny secondary school was hit, while bodies lay on nearby roads as the intensity of the attack prevented security services reaching the scene, a source said.
Shells also struck the governor’s palace in Kuito and a church where people had sought refuge from the bombardments. The attack spread panic in the Dala quarter of Kuito, which has been worst hit in the shelling, according to Catholic radio station Ecclesia.
Fighting between government troops and Unita continued in the nearby commune of Kunje, while state radio reported rebel troop deployments in the south-western Namibe province, clashes in the central Huambo province and fourteen deaths in Unita ambushes in the south-eastern Benguela province. — AFP
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