ANGOLA SAYS IT DROVE BACK SOUTH AFRICAN ATTACKS, KILLED 40

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00874R000100240017-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 12, 1986
• Content Type: MISC

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Slug: 121207 DIS :AM-ANGOLA URGENT Date: 08/12/86 08:07:39
Category:RLBY12 Story:796
ANGOLA SAYS IT DROVE BACK SOUTH AFRICAN ATTACKS, KILLED 40
LISBON, Aug 12, Reuter - Angola's Defence Ministry said today Angolan
forces had driven back two attacks by South African troops on a strategic
south-eastern Angolan town, killing 40 of the attackers and capturing four.
A ministry statement quoted today by the official Angolan news agency
ANGOP said three South African battalions backed by armoured cars and heavy
artillery attacked Cuito Cuanavale in Cuando Cubango province on Sunday and
again early yesterday.
Two Angolan soldiers were killed in the attacks and 23 civilians were
killed and 18 wounded by South African shelling of the town, the statement
added.
South Africa's defence force has so far declined to comment on the
reported attack by its troops on Cuito Cuanavale, which lies some 300 km
(185 miles) inside south-east Angola.
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