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Published Sunday, May 12, 1996, in the Miami Herald.

IN THE AMERICAS

From Herald Wire Services

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

6 prison inmates die,
40 hurt in rioting SANTO DOMINGO -- Inmates rioted Saturday at a crowded jail near Santo Domingo, leaving six prisoners dead and more than 40 injured.

Prison authorities did not disclose what provoked the riot, which broke out at daybreak at the jail in San Cristobal, about 20 miles west of the capital, Santo Domingo.

Prisoners, their families and guards gave differing accounts of the rioting. According to some reports, feuding inmate factions started fighting and set a fire that killed six inmates.

Another account said inmates stabbed and burned alive an inmate accused of raping an elderly woman, and then set fire to their beds.

NICARAGUA

Latest church bombing causes little damage

MANAGUA -- In the latest of a string of church attacks, a bomb exploded at a Roman Catholic church on the east side of Managua.

The Holy Family Church and a nearby elementary school were empty at the time and no one was hurt.

No one claimed responsibility for Friday's bombing, the 22nd on a Catholic church in Nicaragua in the past year.

Red Cross workers said damage to the church was slight.

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  • ARGENTINA -- The government of Santa Fe province has begun building a soup kitchen in response to outrage caused by television footage of hungry shantytown dwellers grilling cats to eat.
  • MEXICO -- Authorities are installing new sensors on Popocatepetl Volcano to monitor the ashes and gas that have been belching from its crater since March.


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