Five shot dead in Guatemala brothel
March 2nd, 2010 - 11:49 am ICT by IANSGuatemala City, March 2 (IANS/EFE) Four men and a 15-year-old boy were murdered in a brothel in the southern Guatemalan town of Escuintla, authorities said.
A police spokesman told reporters that “two heavily armed men” entered the brothel Sunday night and after robbing the customers, who were drinking alcohol there, “fired indiscriminately” at them.
“The toll in the massacre was five men killed, among them a youth 15 years old, and two others seriously wounded. The attackers fled,” said the spokesman.
–IANS/EFE
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