Vatican reports Angola murders

Vatican City - The Vatican said yesterday that three Catholic clerics had been murdered in Angola.

Vatican City - The Vatican said yesterday that three Catholic clerics had been murdered in Angola.

Father Albino Saluhaku, from the diocese of Huambo, and two of his aides had been "barbarically killed", the Vatican said in a statement.

Fighting between the MPLA-led government and UNITA broke out in early December, marking the collapse of a four-year-old peace accord.

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