Top guerrilla shot

Press, 13 August 1976, Page 5

Top guerrilla shot

N ZPA-Reuter Mexico City 1 The leader of Mexico’s) most notorious guerrilla I band has been killed in anattack on the sister of the! President-elect (.Mr Jose! Lopez Portillo) according to] the Mexican police. The police said David! Jimenez Sarmiento was killed when he and three other members of the ultraLeftist 23rd of September League attacked the car in which Margarita Lopez Por tillo was being driven to her office. She was not hurt, but one of her bodyguards was killed and three others were wounded. The other three attackers! escaped, the police said. The police gave this! account: I

At 10.35 a.m., on Wednes-1 • day a taxi pulled in front of I (Mrs Lopez Portillo’s car in al i) residential section near cen,!tral Mexico City and three i • men and a young woman ;|jumped out with sub-mach-ijine-guns blazing. Mrs Lop ’ Portillo’s (chauffeur, Guadalupe Ruiz I‘Jauregui, was wounded and ; lost control of the car, i which careered into several ■ other cars before crashing : into the door of a drug i store. A carload of bodyguards behind rushed up • with guns blazing, and Jime- : nez Sarmiento was shot > dead. i Mrs Lopez Portillo’s car (was riddled with bullets, the ; I windshield was shattered, and the rear window was .(blasted out. i Mr Lopez Portillo, aged

(46, who will take office on (December 1, was not availlable for comment. President | Luis Echeverria also was not (available. Mr Lopez Portillo was elected on July 4.