Policeman Held in Attack on Reporter
From Times Wire Reports
A Colombian policeman was arrested on suspicion of trying to kill a U.S. television network reporter, a police official said.
Raul Benoit, a Colombian correspondent for Univision Communications Inc., the leading Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., was unharmed after shots were fired at him in Cali.
The suspect, Carlos Emilio Molina, was shot and wounded by one of Benoit’s bodyguards and arrested at the scene, National Police Gen. Ernesto Gilibert said.
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