Prelate shot dead
NZPA-Reuter San Salvador The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador, who braved death threats from Left and Right-wing extremists in his battle for human rights in violencestricken El -Salvador,- has been shot dead as he prepared to say Mass. Gunmen opened' fire on Archbishop Oscar ■ Arnulfo Romero with machine-guns just before the start of a service in the chapel at the Divine Providence Hospital in a western suburb of the City.
I The 63-year-old prelate was seriously wounded. Nuns took him to • the capital’s main hospital where he was pronounced dead. The police said there was no immediate clue to the identity of the gunmen. Monsignor Romero, nominated last year by a group of British parliamentarians for the Nobel prize- for peace, repeatedly denounced the killings in El Salvador where hundreds of' people have died in fighting among Left and Right-wing groups and the security forces.
His sermons in San Salvador Cathedral, which were broadcast by El Salvador's Catholic radio station, earned him manv enemies.
El Salvador’s l -ruling civil-ian-military junta issued a statement expressing anger at the archbishop’s killing
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