World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Gunmen Murder 13 in Two Massacres
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gunmen killed 13 people in two separate massacres, Colombian police said. Seven died when men in two vehicles opened fire on a group of young people standing on a corner in a working-class neighborhood of Medellin, the country’s second largest city. In a second massacre, gunmen killed a town councilman and five peasant leaders traveling in a vehicle near Chaguani, 50 miles northwest of Bogota. The motive for the murders had not been established.
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