Official Reported Slain, a 2nd Hurt in El Salvador
Unidentified gunmen killed a Transportation Ministry official and seriously wounded the director of the postal service in separate attacks in the capital, police said Friday.
In one attack Thursday night, gunmen entered the apartment of Ricardo Dominguez Parada, 45, head of the Transportation Ministry’s Driver’s License Division, dragged him out and shot him dead, a police report said.
The report said that the second victim was Rodolfo Alberto Henriquez Quezada, director of the government’s Postal Service, but gave no details of the attack. A witness, however, said that Quezada was shot twice by two gunmen who approached him Thursday evening in an ice-cream parlor. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken said that his condition is serious.
No person or group immediately claimed responsibility for either attack.
The shootings, however, were similar to several recent assaults carried out in this capital by leftist guerrillas. Victims typically have been low- and middle-level officials of the government, retired and active military officers and Salvadorans working for the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador.
A machine-gun attack June 19 on two sidewalk cafes in the capital killed 13 people, including two American businessmen and four U.S. Marines.
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