Daughter of Salvadoran Official Slain
SAN SALVADOR — The daughter of a senior Salvadoran military official was shot as she drove from her family’s home Tuesday and the country’s leftist rebels claimed responsibility for the killing.
Maria Isabel Casanova, 23, was ambushed less than a block from her house in Santa Tecla, seven miles southwest of San Salvador shortly after 7 a.m., the armed forces said. Casanova was celebrating her 23rd birthday on Tuesday.
The victim was the daughter of Col. Oscar Edgardo Casanova, the director of the Armed Forces Studies Center in San Salvador, a military spokesman said.
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