The World - News from Sept. 10, 1985

An unidentified attacker threw a hand grenade onto a crowded dance floor at a high school students’ party in the northern town of Ocotal, Nicaraguan police said. Seven people were killed and 35 were wounded, according to a witness who asked not to be identified. A spokesman for the Nicaraguan Red Cross confirmed the attack and the number wounded but not the number of dead. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to rebel activity. Ocotal has been the scene of fighting between troops of the leftist Sandinista government and U.S.-supported contras.