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WORLD NEWSTuesday 13 October 2015

Guatemala: NEWS BRIEFS

Mob kills village mayor over brutal attack on rival Puerto Rico eases
uniform rules for
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A popular tourist destination and a home where Jura- mayor. Vigilante killings are gay school youths
mob killed a village mayor of Lake Atitlan. can had sought refuge, common in rural parts of
in western Guatemala in Villagers blamed Juracan and burned him to death. Guatemala, where there’s SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
reprisal for an attack on a for an attack Sunday on They also torched vehicles often scant police pres- — Puerto Rico’s educa-
political rival that resulted former mayoral candidate and at least six buildings ence. Prosecutors opened tion secretary says public
in the death of two teen- Lorenzo Sequen, who was including a restaurant and an investigation into the school students can for the
age girls, authorities said riding in a pickup with rela- an Internet cafe. incidents. National Police first time choose to wear
Monday. tives when about 10 armed Sequen told police he had spokesman Jorge Aguilar pants or skirts as part of
Prosecutors’ office spokes- and masked men opened been threatened on mul- said 50 officers were de- their uniform regardless of
woman Julia Barrera fire. Sequen’s daughter tiple occasions by civic ployed to patrol the vil- their gender without be-
confirmed the death of and niece, both 17, were authorities after he called lage, where burned cars ing punished. Rafael Ro-
43-year-old Mayor Bacilio shot dead, and at least five for an audit of the village remained in the streets man said Monday that the
Juracan of Concepcion, a others, including Sequen, government. According Monday. Juracan was re- new regulation is meant to
town about 110 miles (180 were wounded. to a police report, another elected as mayor Sept. 6, be inclusive of gay, lesbian
kilometers) west of Gua- Hours later, hundreds of former candidate urged and Sequen was a candi- and transgender students.
temala City and near the people surrounded city hall neighbors to attack the date for a rival party. q He said teachers will no
longer be allowed to dis-
Second volcano spews ash near Ecuador capital cipline students who pre-
fer to wear pants instead
of skirts or vice versa. Girls
in public schools across
the U.S. territory tradition-
ally wear skirts as part of
their uniforms and the boys
wear pants.

Guyana seeks US
help to fight drug
running at airport

A large plume of ash and steam rises from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador. The Geophysics Institute said during GEORGETOWN, Guyana
the first week of October the Cotopaxi has shown an increase in emission of ash and temperature, and a noted glow in the crater. (AP) — Guyana is ask-
A second volcano, the Tungurahua, is also now spewing plumes of ash in the mountain chain near Ecuador’s capital. ing the U.S. government
for help in cracking down
(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) on drug smuggling at the
South American country’s
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A several bursts of gas and The Cotopaxi volcano clos- It poses a greater threat to main airport. U.S. Ambas-
second volcano is once ash over the weekend, er to the capital was rela- populated areas, sador Perry Holloway says
again spewing plumes of with one reaching more tively calm Monday after standing about 30 miles talks are ongoing with Guy-
ash in the mountain chain than a mile (about 2 kilo- several outbursts in recent (50 kilometers) southeast ana officials to loan spe-
near Ecuador’s capital. meters) above 16,475-foot days. It shot ash and gas of Quito. Tungurahua is 87 cial drug-detecting equip-
The country’s Geophys- (5,023-meter) summit. about 1.5 mile (2.5 kilome- miles (140 kilometers) south ment.
ics Institute says the Tun- It also hurled incandescent ters) above its crater on of the capital. q The cooperation comes as
gurahua volcano shot out rock onto its slope. Sunday. administrators at Cheddi
Jagan International Air-
port crack down on bag
handlers and check-in
clerks accused of help-
ing drug smugglers. Many
have been fired. Guyana’s
anti-narcotics director,
James Singh, said Mon-
day that he will also discuss
with Holloway ways to im-
prove his unit’s intelligence
capabilities.q