WORLD : Rebels Hand Bodies of 5 to U.S.
The bodies of five Americans killed when their locust-spraying DC-7 plane was shot down by Pilisario rebels have been handed over to the U.S. Embassy, government and American officials said today.
About 100 personal items of the five were handed over at a ceremony Thursday, the officials said. The bodies were brought to the embassy by a Polisario Red Cross unit. Polisario, the movement fighting Morocco for independence of the former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, admitted it mistook the U.S. plane for a Moroccan military jet and shot it down.
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