GAN OR, OCCUPIED GAZA STRIP: An Israeli settler who operated a greenhouse was stabbed to death March 8 by Palestinian he was bringing to work.
Hours later, settlers returning from the man’s funeral shot and killed a Palestinian laborer, reports said.
In other unrest an Arab boy, 16, was shot and killed by soldiers in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm, Israel, television reported. ‘Also, at least seven Palestinians, including a 63yearold woman, were wounded in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, Arab reports said. “The outburst of violence came hours after the army lifted a six day closure of Gaza prompted by last week’s killings.
Soviet soldiers home
MOSCOW: Iwo bewildered, bearded former Red Army soldiers arrived home and were greeted by flowers and sobbing relatives Monday, nine years after being taken captive by Muslim insurgents in Afghanistan.
Leonid Vylku and Viktor N Nazarov were released from the northern city of Mazare Sharif on Saturday as goodwill gesture by “s Islamic government, Afghan minister counselor ‘Abdul Wahab Assefi said.
Escobar hit man nabbed
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA: In another blow to Pablo Escobar’s drug operation, police in Medellin arrested a suspected hit man for the cocaine cartel, officials announced Monday.
‘The capture ‘of Juan Guillermo Henrique on Sunday was the latest in a sting of arrests of about two dozen Escobar employees since the ‘drug boss escaped from his resort like jail in July.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 12, 1993
