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26 Apr 84 CUBA Q1 REPORTAGE ON BOMBING OF BUILDING IN ANGOLA Tele Rebelde Reports FL252000 Havana Television Service in Spanish 1800 GMT 25 Apr 84 Text We have made contact with Luanda, From there our correspondent in the People Republic of Angola will inform us about the events in Huambo. Go ahead, Comrade Juan Perez Dominguez. Begin telephone relay The information center of Tele Rebelde in Africa transmits the latest news about the criminal attack perpetrated by the counterrevolutionaries in the service of Washington and Pretoria in Huambo, People Republic of Angola. First we are going to say that all the Cubans wounded in the terrorist action in the City of Huambo on 19 April are out of danger, according to the chief of the group of Cuban doctors, Dr Mario Fernandez (Regalado. Interviewed by the different news media here in Luanda, Dr Fernandez said that they are all recovering, including the 10 who were seriously injured. He pointed out that organizational measures were taken immediately in the Luanda hospital and thanks to the unselfish efforts of the doctors, nurses, and technicians in Huambo, which along with the two groups that were sent within hours of the explosion, none of the injured died. The heroic attitude of the wounded Cubans, their bravery and determination, did much to help the efforts of the professionals and brought the group together in their efforts and in moving the victims, according to Dr Mario Fernandez (Regalado. We can recount the events and conclude by saying that as has already been reported to all our people, last Thursday, 19 April, in the City of Huambo, located 650 km south of Angola as heard. there was a cr dynamite attack which killed 24 civilians, including Angolans and foreigners. Fourteen of the dead were Cuban internationalist workers. We can say that the attack was another terrorist act carried out by the declared enemies of the Angolan people. criminals in the service of the racist regime of South Africa and Yankee imperialism, In their. desperate) frustration in the face of the defeats they have received on all fronts, the puppets cowardly intended to explode a dynamite filled car which they parked on the main street of Huambo, February Avenue, an area transited by all citizens, whether they are workers or students. The device exploded at 1730.
That is the information we wanted to transmit to our people on this occasion.
we add that we are expecting at our Tele Rebelde center pictures taken in the City of Huambo and some interviews with the injured individuals, who as we reported at the beginning of this transmission are completely out of danger after the medical attention they received in the hospital in Luanda. This was a report transmitted directly from Tele Rebelde center in Africa and reported by Juan Perez Dominguez. end relay MPLA Members Visit Wounded FL252110 Havana Television Service in Spanish 1800 GMT 25 Apr 84 Text PRENSA LATINA report states that Lucio Lara and Dilo Matros, politburo members of the MPLA Popular Liberation Movement of Angola Labor Party, have visited the Luanda hospital where the Cubans wounded in the Huambo terrorist action on 19 April are being treated, Lara and Matros were accompanied by Francisco Maida Espaiva, Central Committee member, and Venancio de Mora, Angola vice minister of foreign relations.