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Reports from the scene quoted witnesses as saying that two bombing runs left hundreds of dead and wounded. A steady stream of ambulances and trucks transported the wounded to Lusaka's main hospital late into the evening.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/24/archives/rhodesia-bombs-base-in-zambia-hundreds-of-casualties-reported.html/ Rhodesia Bombs Base in Zambia; Hundreds of Casualties Reported], New York Times, 24 February 1979</ref> | Reports from the scene quoted witnesses as saying that two bombing runs left hundreds of dead and wounded. A steady stream of ambulances and trucks transported the wounded to Lusaka's main hospital late into the evening.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/24/archives/rhodesia-bombs-base-in-zambia-hundreds-of-casualties-reported.html/ Rhodesia Bombs Base in Zambia; Hundreds of Casualties Reported], New York Times, 24 February 1979</ref> | ||
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*[[Nampundwe camp]] | |||
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Chikumbi Refugee Camp was bombed on 19 October 1978 by Ian Smith's Selous Scouts. The camp was located about 20 kilometers north of Lusaka and was described as a black nationalist guerrilla camp by the Smith regime.
The Rhodesian military said the planes had attacked "the main controlling military headquarters" for operations of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) led by Joshua Nkomo.[1]
The daring daylight raid, which occurred around 09:00 hours, is still indelibly etched in the minds of the locals who speak of death, horror and despondency as a posse of British Canberras and French Mirage jets made waves of attack using napalm, pellet bombs, 25 kilogramme pounder bombs and grenades before helicopters marked "Rhodesia Air Force" came in for the final assault using heavy machine guns with incendiary bullets, cutting the defenseless refugees into pieces.
Reports from the scene quoted witnesses as saying that two bombing runs left hundreds of dead and wounded. A steady stream of ambulances and trucks transported the wounded to Lusaka's main hospital late into the evening.[2]
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- ↑ Rhodesian Planes Strike Near Zambian Capital, Washington Post, 20 October 1978
- ↑ Rhodesia Bombs Base in Zambia; Hundreds of Casualties Reported, New York Times, 24 February 1979
