The World - News from Feb. 15, 1987

A cash-carrying mail truck was ambushed in Rome by up to 10 gunmen who killed two police escorts and seriously wounded a third with shotgun and automatic weapons fire, police said. A police spokesman said a car pulled out in front of the mail van, and the bandits piled out of three other cars and blasted away at the mail truck and an accompanying police car. Witnesses reported hearing more than 100 shots. The robbers fled with sacks containing the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. The Red Brigades urban terror group and the Union of Fighting Communists reportedly claimed responsibility.