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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. | 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.<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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