The World - News from July 5, 1987

A land mine set by U.S.-backed contras killed a Salvadoran friar in Nicaragua and injured three people traveling with him, Managua radio said. State-run Voice of Nicaragua said that Brother Jose Tomas Agustin Zabaleta, whom the radio originally identified as a priest, was killed while traveling a rural road 70 miles northeast of Managua. A woman, a Nicaraguan priest and a lay worker riding with him were wounded when their car triggered a land mine planted by the anti-Sandinista guerrillas. A hospital spokesman said the woman was in a coma and “could die at any moment.”