French Family Ambushed; 3 Killed

Gunmen ambushed a family of five French tourists on a road near the border with Angola, killing the three children and seriously wounding the parents. Namibian authorities blamed the Monday attack on the Angolan rebel movement UNITA. The family, with children ages 10, 15 and 19, was traveling in a rented car on the main road between the towns of Rundu and Katima Mulilo, police said. The adults were flown to a hospital in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, and were in critical condition, an official with the French Embassy in Windhoek said. Lodge owners in the area of the attack, which is popular for adventure tourism, said that some heavily armed men, later identified as UNITA soldiers, were arrested after the attack but that it was unclear if they were involved.