The World - News from July 26, 1985
A Colombian judge, who ordered charges brought against 16 people in the apparently drug-related assassination of the nation’s justice minister last year, was shot and killed in a taxi stuck in rush-hour traffic, police said. Five gunmen walked up to the taxi and shot Judge Manuel Castro 13 times. The 16 people charged included a Colombian congressman. President Belisario Betancur has said that the killing of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was the work of drug traffickers.
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