POLICE - ANGOLAN OFFICIAL DECRIES KILLING OF ACTORS

ANGOLAN OFFICIAL DECRIES KILLING OF ACTORS

A top Angolan official has denounced police who killed two actors and injured others while a scripted robbery scene was being shot in a suburb of Luanda, the capital. Interior Minister Roberto Leal Monteiro described the shooting as an "undue use of firearms." In an interview with the BBC's Portuguese Service, the director of the film described the sudden arrival of police at the location site, who immediately began firing at the actors, who were carrying unloaded weapons. "They went on shooting until I shouted out: 'Please don't shoot, this is a movie,'" he said.

20/12/2007