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World Service,30 Apr 1993,24 mins

Zambian Football Team Tragedy

This Week and Africa

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An air crash kills 14 members of Zambia's national football team. The country mourns a generation of national soccer stars who died en route to Dakar for a World Cup qualifying fixture against Senegal. Also on the programme, another food programme plane is attacked in Angola and the Sudanese government uncovers a coup attempt.

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