Gunmen
Kill Five Guatemalan Prison
Officials
Guatemala - At least
five people died and two were injured Monday
in three separate shootings targeting
Guatemala Penitentiary System vehicles,
according to news reaching here.
In the first attack early in the day, two
men aboard a motorcycle fired with an AK-47
at a truck carrying a prisoner from the town
of Villa Nueva to a prison in the city's
northern 18th district, as it traveled along
Aguilar Batres Avenue in the south of the
capital, Guatemala City, police spokesman
Donald Gonzalez said.
Prison officer Prudencio Pineda, 20, died on
the spot and his colleague, Eduardo Chavez,
died later in hospital. The killers were
arrested by security forces after they fell
from the motorbike, Gonzalez said.
In the second incident, also in the morning,
Felix Garcia, director of the El Progeso
province jail, was killed on the spot on the
street close to the San Juan de Dios
hospital in eastern Guatemala City when a
team of heavily armed men attacked his
vehicle. Two passers-by were injured.
A third attack killed Javier Bat, deputy
director of Chimaltenango jail, and prison
guard Eliseo Hernandez when they were
driving through the western province of
Chimaltenango on the Inter-American Highway.
Prison Service General Directorate's
headquarters in Guatemala City was shot by
gunmen on Saturday. No one was hurt in the
attack.
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