Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:36:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Sendic Estrada Jimenez <sestrada-AT-fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-I: E;Four killed in clash between EPR, Mexican troops, May 25 (fwd)


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Subject: Four killed in clash between rebels, Mexican troops (fwd)



On Sun, 25 May 1997
	 ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuter) - Four people were killed and  
three wounded Saturday when left-wing guerrillas ambushed 
Mexican troops in a mountainous area of the southwestern state 
of Guerrero, the government said. 
	 A Defense Ministry statement said the clash took place just  
after 3 p.m. local time when rebels from the Popular 
Revolutionary Army (EPR) attacked troops near the town of 
Tepozonalco. 
	 The statement said two army sergeants and two guerrillas  
carrying AK-47 assault rifles died in the clash, which took 
place about 62 miles east of the state capital Chilpancingo. 
	 Three army doctors were also injured in the ambush, which  
the statement said came as the army patrol returned from helping 
victims of a heavy hailstorm in the region. 
	 Passengers on a bus who witnessed the clash, however, said  
the incident was not an ambush but an attack by troops who 
surprised EPR rebels handing out propaganda leaflets to drivers 
on the road. 
	 One official told Reuters that 10 troops were wounded in the

attack, four of them seriously, but the higher number could not 
immediately be confirmed. 
	 The news became public when a taxi driver picked up a police

radio transmission reporting the attack and confirming that the 
guerrillas had been distributing propaganda along the road. 
	 A state police officer said the authorities had started an  
intensive ground and helicopter search for the guerrillas. 
The clash was the first reported this year between the military 
and the EPR, which sprang up in late June 1996 calling for a 
Marxist popular uprising to overthrow the federal government. 
	 After a series of attacks at the end of August and sporadic  
shootings thereafter, the group lapsed into relative inactivity 
this year, saying it would concentrate on ``armed propaganda'' 
instead. 
	 But a few weeks ago, EPR leaders warned reporters that armed

conflict was ``imminent'' because of what they termed continuing 
hostilities by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo. 


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