Five die in gun-battle after ambush
NZPA-Reuter San Sebastian) ; i Five people were killed yesterday in a gun-battle be-ii tween the police and al: group believed to be Basque j; separatist guerrillas, the't police have said. Hospital sources said, three people were wounded [( in the battle which took;, place Bkm south of the;t northern Basque city of Sank Sebastian. 't
I The police said that three .of the. dead were paramilitary Civil Guards and two were believed to be) members of a group that; ambushed them as they) drove along a country lane. i The attack appeared similar to an ambush of Civil Guards mounted by the Basque guerrilla group, E.T.A.. on February 1. Six guards and two guerrillas died ini that battle.
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