The World - News from June 18, 1986
Suspected Basque guerrillas killed two Spanish army officers and their driver in Madrid in an ambush seen by some as an attempt to disrupt campaigning for Sunday’s general election. Two men and a woman fired machine guns at the car carrying Lt. Col. Carlos Besteiro Perez and Maj. Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas. As residents tried to stop the getaway car, about 200 presumed rightists crowded around the victims, giving straight-arm salutes, shouting slogans against both the government and Basque guerrillas and calling for the army to take power.
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