/ 30 June 1999

BODIES OF ANGOLAN CRASH VICTIMS FOUND

SIX people died when a helicopter crashed a week ago in Angola including the Deputy Interior Minister Jeronimo Marcolino Ngongo and the deputy chief of police intelligence Baltazar Gourgel Ndombolo, the interior ministry said Wednesday. Their bodies, found on Monday in southwestern coastal province of Namibe, have been sent to Luanda. An unsuccessful search was carried out at sea on Tuesday for the bodies of the other victims — two senior police officers, General Fernando Coelho da Cruz Sobrinho and Commissioner Antonio Victor Teixeira da Cunha, the Namibe police chief and a state television reporter. The helicopter crashed for an unknown reason while en route to the Baia dos Tigres and Yona reserves in Namibe province.