Turned Down for a Dance, Colonel Kills 6
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR —
An army colonel angry because his girlfriend refused to dance with him lobbed a grenade onto a dance floor Sunday, killing six people and injuring 90, the Red Cross said.
Witnesses identified the alleged attacker as Col. Jorge Alberto Cuellar. His girlfriend and a 5-year-old girl died at the scene, and four others died at hospitals.
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