Renamo rebels kill 7 Mozambique soldiers: local media

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Suspected Renamo guerrillas killed seven Mozambican soldiers in an ambush on Thursday near the former rebel group's remote mountain hideout, the latest flare-up in a simmering insurgency that has alarmed foreign mining investors, local media said. Ministry of Defence spokesman Cristovao Chume confirmed the attack on a military patrol near Gorongosa, in the middle of the war-scarred southern African nation, but denied that any soldiers had been killed. He told reporters two Renamo militiamen had been killed in an exchange of fire.