The World - News from Oct. 18, 1987
Mozambican rebels ambushed a convoy of vehicles on the African nation’s main north-south highway and killed at least 51 people, the official news agency AIM reported. Survivors said another 30 people were wounded. About half the 50 vehicles in the convoy were trapped in the ambush 50 miles north of the capital of Maputo, the agency said. Rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance opened fire with machine guns and set 18 vehicles on fire, including three buses full of passengers, the news agency quoted survivors as saying.
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