WORLD IN BRIEF : MOZAMBIQUE : Rebels Ambush Train; 47 Killed
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Right-wing rebels ambushed a train, killing 47 people and wounding more than 50, Mozambique’s state-run news agency AIM reported. Several survivors were kidnaped, it said. The train carrying mainly miners returning from their jobs in South Africa was six miles from the border town of Ressano Garcia, and about 44 miles northwest of Maputo, when rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance detonated a remote-controlled mine that derailed six passenger cars, then opened fire.
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