The World - News from Feb. 3, 1988

Thirteen bodies have been found in El Salvador in the last two weeks, most of them bound, blindfolded and bearing signs of torture typical of “death squad” victims, a spokesman for the non-governmental Human Rights Commission said. The bodies of two men and a teen-age boy were found at the “Devil’s Gate” outcropping in the mountains south of San Salvador. For several years, right-wing death squads have used the area as a dumping ground for bodies. According to the human rights spokesman, seven bullet-riddled bodies were found Jan. 17 northeast of San Salvador, and three more were found in the same area Jan. 25.