UNITA rebels killed at least 50 people in a raid on a town in Angola's diamond-rich northeastern Lunda Norte province, the private LAC radio station reported on Monday.
Forces of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) on Saturday attacked the small town of Chingufo for the second time in a week, the report said.
An unknown number of people were injured, it added.
Chingufo is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Dundo, the economic capital of the region some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) east of Luanda.
Local police said that UNITA killed five people when the rebels ambushed a lorry near Chingudo on July 10.
UNITA guerrillas, who have been fighting the Luanda government almost nonstop since independence in 1975, are particularly active in Lunda-Norte province.
As its chief town, Dundo is the headquarters of a subsidiary of the state diamond production and marketing company ENDIAMO.
The United Nations and official international dealers have imposed strict controls on trade in Angolan diamonds as part of efforts to stop UNITA raising war funds from traffic in the precious stones -- LUANDA (AFP)
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