The World - News from Aug. 9, 1988
El Salvador military officials reported 135 casualties in fighting between government troops and leftist rebels last week. Thirty guerrillas were killed and 51 wounded, it said, adding that four soldiers were killed and 50 wounded. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front said it inflicted 126 casualties on the army in the same period. It gave no total of rebel losses.
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