25 Dies in Angola Helicopter Crash

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25 Dies in Angola Helicopter Crash

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An Angolan military helicopter crashed Sunday in the northern province of Cuanza-Norte due to bad weather, killing 25 people on board, including two high-ranking officers, the Angolan news agency ANGOP reported.

One officer was Lieutenant-General Jose Domingos, and the other was a general, the agency said.

Domingos was commander of the northern region's military front, it said.

ANGOP said the Soviet-made Mi8 helicopter struck a tree in Mussabo, 200 kilometers east of Luanda, the capital of the southwest African nation.

The helicopter, which was carrying a number of Angolan army officials and journalists, was on its way to a demobilization camp in Mussabo for a ceremony where rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were to hand in their weapons, it said.

ANGOP said a search was under way to find the helicopter's black box.

Angola's armed forces and the rebels signed a ceasefire pact in April aimed at ending a 27-year-old civil war.

Since the two sides stopped fighting, 35 demobilization camps have been set up. UNITA estimates that 69,000 former rebels have moved to the camps all over the country.

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