Rebels Advance Toward Freetown; Reports Differ on U.N. Clashes With Sierra Leone Insurgents

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 7, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Rebel forces advanced toward the capital of Sierra Leone tonight in stolen United Nations vehicles, possibly presaging an attack, but U.N. officials in the field retracted earlier reports that the rebels were on the verge of entering Freetown.

U.N. peacekeepers opened fire on the rebels with a helicopter gunship, Philip Winslow, a U.N. spokesman in Sierra Leone, said tonight. But Fred Eckherd, a U.N. spokesman in New York, said officials could not confirm any fighting.

Winslow said several hundred rebels, carrying light, "infantry- type" weapons, started out this afternoon in the strategic ...

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