REEDOM fighters in Mozam-
bique have shot down two Portuguese planes, killed many enemy troops and freed several compatriots, declared a communique issued by the Dar-es-Salaam office of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), on December 27th. The communique recalled that, on December 12th, a large number. of Portuguese soldiers with forty cars and four planes encircled the Imbuho region from where the people had been transferred by freedom fighters to another place a week ago. When the enemy arrived, there were only two fighters. They posted themselves at a strategic point. They downed one plane carrying Portuguese Major Santos Gomes. The second plane was shot down by the freedom fighters on December 14th while it was on a routine flight over their zone, the communique said. From November 21st to 30th the Frelimo fighters had freed the whole population of a village between Mueda and Diaca, and thirty-seven Mozambican women in Mocuba arrested by the Portuguese. More than forty colonialist soldiers had been killed and many wounded and captured by freedom fighters in recent engagements.
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