2010-11-12 10:12:36
An Angolan minister tells the BBC that a convoy carrying Chinese mine workers
was attacked in the region of Cabinda this week.
He said that two soldiers guarding the workers, contracted by Angola's state
oil company Sonangol, were killed.
A faction of the Cabinda separatist movement Flec has said it carried out
Monday's attack.
Secretary of State for Human Rights Bento Bembe condemned the attack as the
work of "terrorists".
In January, Cabinda independence fighters attacked a bus carrying the Togo
national football team to an African Cup of Nations match in the province,
killing two people and leaving nine others wounded.
Flec (Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda) has been fighting for
three decades for independence in Cabinda, an area separated from Angola by a
strip of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Despite being rich in oil, the region is one of the poorest in the country.