The World - News from July 4, 1988
Unidentified gunmen killed 17 people, including five children, in Colombia’s eastern Meta province, police said. Details of the incident were sketchy. One radio station quoted a local doctor as saying that the assailants opened fire on peasants traveling in a boat on Colombia’s Ariari River, between the towns of Granada and Castillo, 72 miles from Bogota. But a second radio report said the victims were attacked while traveling in a jeep on a local road. The latest massacre followed the slaying last week of 15 gold miners in Antioquia province, reportedly by drug traffickers.
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