Big drive in Eritrea
NZPA-Reuter Nakfa, Eritrea.
Soviet-backed Ethiopian troops have launched a big offensive on three fronts against secessionist guerrillas.
About 50,000 Ethiopian troops, supported by heavy artillery and MiG23 planes, took part in a dawn assault yesterday on guerrilla positions in the northern province of Eritrea.
In the biggest attack, 30,200 Ethiopian soldiers tried to drive inland from the Red Sea coast on the guerrilla-held town of Nakfa. But guerrillas of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, one of the two principal groups fighting for independence from Ethiopia, drove back two assaults.
An E.P.L.F. spokesman said his forces had counterattacked, capturing Ethiopian trenches and a tank.
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Press, 17 July 1979, Page 8
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