The World - News from March 23, 1988

A reputed leader of Colombia’s notorious Medellin drug cartel escaped after a shoot-out between his heavily armed bodyguards and soldiers, the army’s 4th Brigade reported. An unidentified member of Pablo Escobar’s personal guard was wounded in the fighting at a country estate outside Medellin, 180 miles northwest of Bogota, the capital, the army reported. An army statement said that 25 people were arrested, including some of Escobar’s bodyguards and his wife, Maria Victoria Henao, and his sister, Pastora Henao Bayen. The army said communications equipment, 13 vehicles and weapons, including submachine guns and ammunition, were also seized.