AN attack by UNITA rebels in Caxito, north of the Angolan capital, at the weekend left 100 people dead and 100 others missing, state television reported on Monday. The Angolan army said two soldiers and five police officers were wounded during the attack on Saturday by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Television images on Monday showed the corpses of civilian victims being buried. Rebels who attacked Caxito, just 60km north of Luanda, torched cars and riddled buildings with bullets, including the state radio headquarters, the army said. Although Angola’s civil war has raged almost non-stop since its independence from Portugal in 1975, attacks are rare so close to the capital. Angola’s war, which resumed in earnest in 1998 after the collapse of a 1994 peace accord, has left at least 500_000 people dead and four million displaced out of a total population of 12 million. – AFP