The World - News from Jan. 19, 1989
Thirteen people--including two investigating magistrates and seven detectives--were killed in Colombia when a judicial commission was ambushed by gunmen, police said. Two detectives survived. The commission was investigating a wave of murders in a rural area 175 miles north of Bogota, judicial sources said. Officials said they did not know whether the attackers were Marxists or members of a paramilitary rightist group.
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