S.A. men killed
NZPA Pretoria Three South African soldiers have been killed in an incident involving guerrillas near the Namibian border w’th Angola on Saturday, a military communique has announced. The communique which named the soldiers, did not give details as to how they were killed and it was not immediately known whether any South-West African People’s Organisation guerrillas have been killed. Their deaths bring to 15 the number of South African soldiers announced killed since the beginning of the year. So far 78 S.W.A.P.O. guerrillas have been killed this year and 23 civilians have lost the. lives.
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