54 Reported Slain by Rebels in Mozambique
From Associated Press
MAPUTO, Mozambique —
Anti-government rebels armed with axes, machetes and clubs massacred 54 civilians near the southern coastal town of Xai-Xai, the official Mozambican news agency AIM said Wednesday.
The report said most of the victims were kidnaped by guerrillas of the Mozambique National Resistance in Gaza province and marched to Fidel Castro village, just outside Xai-Xai and 90 miles northeast of Maputo, the capital, where they were killed Monday.
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