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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1997
Page
5
Assailants shot and killed ruling party lawmaker Nalanda Ellawala and a bodyguard, wounding another PAs member Dilan Perera in southern Sri Lanka. Gunmen fled on a motorcycle. no group claimed responsibility. Ellawala died from chest wounds after three shots.
Roli Rojas Fernandez of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement left the besieged Japanese ambassador’s house to start preliminary talks on Peru’s hostage crisis. He rode in a white Red Cross marked car to a two story ocher house as Education Minister Domingo Palermo joined the negotiations.
In Vlora Albania police retreated under rioting crowds numbering about 40000 protesting alleged police murder. Demonstrators mourning Artur Rustemi carried his open casket to the cemetery while burning the Democratic Party headquarters amid nationwide rioting over pyramid scheme collapses.
Amid protests in Vlora, one man named Rustemi died and eighty one others were injured during Monday’s riots. Authorities faced blame as Albania’s economy reels from the collapse of risky investment plans resembling pyramid schemes, blamed on government inaction.
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