World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Traffickers Retaliate by Killing 3 Officers
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Three police officers were killed and eight others wounded in Medellin, Colombia, in what security sources said was almost certainly retaliation by the city’s powerful cocaine cartel. Brance Munoz Mosquera, the No. 1 hit man for cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, died in a shootout with police early Wednesday. Later in the day bands of gunmen attacked two police cars and a bus. One of the attackers was slain and two others captured.
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