S.A. coaster strafed
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg. A South African coastal ship has come under attack off Mozambique, according to a radio message received in Durban from the ship yesterday. The vessel, the Limpopo, was on its way south along the coast from the Mozambique capital, Maputo, to Durban when it came under fire from a heavy machine-gun mounted on a Cessna light plane, the message said. The attack lasted half an
hour as the plane made repeated runs over the coaster. None of the crew was hit, but the firing damaged the bridge and superstructure of the ship. The attack occurred about 10 miles north of Cabo do Ouro, which marks the limit of Mozambique’s territorial waters at the extreme north-east point of South Africa’s Natal province. The Limpopo reported that three men were in the plane. The ship’s crew could not identify the plane’s nationality.
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Press, 26 July 1976, Page 6
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