More Guatemala deaths
NZPA Quatemala City At least 21 people, including a Government soldier, a fireman, a bank manager, and nine Leftist guerrillas had been killed in the latest round of Guatemala's political violence, said authorities yesterday. In addition, the director of a school in San Juan Ostuncalco, 217 km north west of Guatemala City, had been kidnapped by three armed men as his students had looked on. A police report said that tw’o men had been found shot to death in north western Quiche Province, one in
Santa Cruz, the provincial capital, and the other just east of Santa Cruz. A later report said that nine guerrillas had died in a shoot-out with Government troops just south of the provincial capital of Quiche, near the town of Chichicastenango. There were no details but Quiche is considered to be one of the focal points of guerrilla activity in Guatemala. The police said that the bank manager had died in cross-fire between unidentified gunmen and a police patrol in the downtown area of Guatemala City. In the south-western part of the country, guerrillas had forced a police sergeant
trom a station wagon and had killed him. One volunteer fireman had been killed and another wounded when they had been ambushed by guerrillas hiding out on a ranch in San Cristobal Verapaz, 193 km north of Guatemala City. The two had been on their way to a village where two bodies, also apparent victims of political violence, had been found.
Three unidentified people had been found shot to death 177 km south west of Guatemala City on the road to Retalhuleu. Local authorities said that two other bullet-riddled bodies had been found in an area 14km farther west.
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