The World : 7 Die in Colombia Attacks

Guerrilla violence killed seven Colombians on the eve of national elections for 311 seats in the National Assembly and for city councils in about 1,000 towns. In one of the worst incidents, leftist insurgents threw a bomb into a restaurant in the Caribbean port of Turbo, killing a policeman and a civilian and injuring nine people, police said. In Bogota, the capital, two guerrillas were killed after taking a mother and her two daughters hostage. In Arauca, near the Venezuelan border, two rebels and a policeman were killed in a gun battle when the rebels ambushed a police patrol.