World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Gunmen Kill Feared Death Squad Leader

Attackers firing submachine guns killed feared Colombian right-wing death squad leader Henry Perez and six others during a religious procession in a northern Colombian town, police sources said. Two of the assassins were themselves shot dead, the sources said. Perez, leader of peasant self-defense groups in central Colombia, was slain as he watched the procession of the Virgin del Carmen in Puerto Boyaca, 90 miles northwest of the capital Bogota. Perez’s bodyguard and five children were also killed. A judge sentenced Perez, who had been on the run for years, to 20 years in jail in his absence last month for the massacre of 20 farmworkers.