UNITA rebels launched a weekend attack near the central Angolan gateway town of Kuito, killing 19 people and wounding 27, the Portuguese news agency Lusa said. About 150 heavily-armed rebels on Sunday attacked Catala, about 30 km from Kuito, which was the scene of bloody clashes when fighting resumed in late 1998 between the government and rebels, Lusa quoted inhabitants as saying. The agency said the rebels attacked with mortars, occupied the town for some three hours then withdrew after taking an unspecified number of civilians with them, whose whereabouts remained unknown. – Reuters