Nation IN BRIEF : ARIZONA : 3 Youths Detained in Killings at Temple
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Three teen-agers living on Luke Air Force Base were detained, base officials said, and a source said ballistic tests linked them to the August killing of six monks and three others at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix. Slugs recovered at the temple murder scene were matched with slugs test-fired from a .22-caliber rifle owned by one of the teen-agers, said the source, who is close to the investigation.
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