U.N. Troops Attacked in Namibia

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Gunmen have attacked U.N. troops for the first time since they arrived to police Namibia’s progress toward independence, and the United Nations on Friday condemned the assaults as terrorism.

A commercial security guard was killed when unidentified gunmen threw grenades and fired guns from a vehicle at a U.N. post in the northern Namibian town of Outjo.

A similar attack, in which no one was injured, was made on an Outjo military compound where Kenyan troops are billeted.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the Thursday evening attacks, the first on U.N. troops since they arrived April 1 to supervise Namibia’s transition to independence from South Africa next year.