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Former attorney general murdered in El Salvador
Oct 13, 2007, 7:50 GMT
San Salvador - Former Salvadoran attorney general Manuel Cordoba Castellanos has been murdered, police said Friday.
Unknown attackers shot Cordoba Castellanos from a car late Thursday in the city of Santa Tecla, in the central Salvadorian province of La Libertad, the police said.
Castellanos, 58, was attorney general from 1996 to 1999, and has since worked as a law professor in several universities and as a lawyer.
No details or motives for the attack were immediately known, but the authorities ruled out a robbery because nothing was taken from the former attorney general.
El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in Latin America, along with Honduras and Guatemala. Close to 4,000 people were killed in 2006 in this Central American country with 7 million people.
In many cases, the killings are the result of power struggles between juvenile gangs known as 'maras,' and sometimes the security forces are involved too. A majority of the crimes are not solved.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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