September 19, 1982, Forty Years Ago: 200 held hostag
By: Editorial Updated: September 19, 2022 4:10:08 am
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 19, 1982.Left-wing guerrillas held hostage some 200 leading Honduran businessmen, two cabinet ministers and the central bank governor and warned they would begin killing them if the government did not release 80 political prisoners. The hostages include Finance Minister Arturo Carleto, Economics Minister Gustavo Alfaro and central bank governor Gonzalo Carrillo.
Flood toll
Six persons were drowned in the swollen Gomti on the outskirts of Lucknow. The boat, which was carrying 40 passengers, capsized near Arjunganj village. While 34 were rescued, six, four children, a man and a woman, were drowned. Their bodies were later recovered. With the six deaths, the death toll in the current floods and heavy rain, according to official figures, mounted to 407.
Palestinians killed
Hundreds of men, women and children were massacred in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut within the past 36 hours, apparently by right-wing Lebanese Christian militiamen, reporters who toured the scene said.
Lost Chinese
The foreign ministry said that two Chinese engineers lost their way last month and crossed the Indian border but were returned by Indian authorities. It had had no direct comment on a newspaper report that a Chinese engineer crossed into India on September 3 to seek political asylum.
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First published on: 19-09-2022 at 03:55:06 am