The World - News from Sept. 18, 1988

Left-wing Colombian rebels burst into a federal court building firing automatic weapons, freed five jailed comrades and abducted a judge’s assistant, who was later found shot to death, police said. The attack occurred in the town of Buga, 160 miles southwest of Bogota. Police said that after an hourlong chase, they captured two of the freed guerrillas and found the hostage’s body. In another development, leftist guerrillas freed 22 government soldiers and police officer captured in a northwestern Colombia raid last month and also released two Colombian geologists seized in another attack, the government and military announced.