WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Two More Officers Slain in Medellin
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gunmen in the cocaine capital of Medellin sprayed a patrol car with bullets, killing two officers and wounding two others. The four were going off duty after guarding the house of the provincial police director. The murders brought to 127 the number of officers killed in the city this year. Shortly afterward, the “Extraditables”--top traffickers wanted for trial in the United States--renewed their declaration of war on the government in an open letter to the police director.
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