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Attacks on Guatemalan Police Leave Two
Wounded
GUATEMALA – Two agents of Guatemala’s
National Civil Police, or PNC, were
seriously wounded in three armed attacks on
the force’s facilities and vehicles, an
official said.
PNC spokesman Donald Gonzalez told Efe that
the first two attacks were perpetrated by
armed men who opened fire on two patrol cars
at different points in the capital.
“Unfortunately two of our agents have been
seriously wounded, but their medical
condition is stable,” Gonzalez said.
The third attack took place in a downtown
residential neighborhood of the capital, in
which unknown persons threw a grenade at PNC
headquarters, though the device failed to
explode.
According to Gonzalez, the attacks could be
“reprisals by groups of organized crime” for
the moving of close to 15 convicts
considered dangerous to a maximum security
prison.
The spokesman said that security measures
have been heightened to avoid further
attacks, adding that “the investigation of
these incidents is well underway.” EFE
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