SIX people were reported killed in Angola on Friday in the third attack by Unita rebels since their leader Jonas Savimbi was killed last week. Lusa, the news agency of Angola’s former colonial power Portugal, said 13 other people were wounded in the attack on Thursday in the northeast province of Lunda Norte. Angolan government military sources told Lusa the attackers were trying to get food. On Monday, nine people were killed in an ambush in Malange by Unita rebels and another 15 were seriously wounded, while four were killed and four more wounded in another attack on Thursday. Savimbi, who led his rebels in a brutal 27-year civil war after Angola achieved independence from Portugal in 1975, was killed in a battle with government forces in Angola on February 22. The Luanda government called on rebels to lay down their arms after the death of the group’s towering figurehead. On a visit to Washington this week, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said government forces were in no position to call a ceasefire. But officials said earlier on Friday that dos Santos had ordered the army to make contact with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) and work towards a ceasefire. – AFP