The armed wing of the Cabindese independence movement announced that it had killed six soldiers in the village of Bembica, in the Necuto area, next to the Pinto da Fonseca area in an operation between 11:30 pm on Sunday and 12:40 am this Monday, in which it seized 12 AK4 machine guns, five rocket launchers and ammunition, according to a statement from the FLEC-FAC, signed by Ricardo Danda wa Danda, commander of the FAC's special forces.
About three hours later, rebel forces claim to have attacked an FAA patrol further south in the same area, killing four more soldiers and wounding two others, once again seizing abandoned military material.
The FLEC-FAC also claims to have attacked an FAA military vehicle at 4:50 am on the road that connects the towns of Nova Beirra, on the border between Necuto and Dinge, causing three deaths "in the uniforms of sailors of the Angolan national navy" and "several" injured. on the side of the Angolan forces.
Finally, at 6:05 am, "five Angolan soldiers were killed and several others wounded in an ambush between the villages of Caio N'Guala and Cungo Butuno, on the detour to the village of Baca", according to the same statement.
The FLEC has been fighting for several years for the independence of the territory, from which a large part of the national oil comes, claiming that the enclave was a Portuguese protectorate - as established in the Treaty of Simulambuco, signed in 1885 - and not an integral part of the territory. angolan
The Government normally refuses to recognize the existence of dead soldiers as a result of guerrilla actions by the independentists, or any situation of instability in that northern province of Angola, always underlining the unity of the territory.
