- Title: EL SALVADOR: REBELS STEP OFFENSIVE IN HILL TOP ATTACK.
- Date: 8th May 1987
- Summary: CERRO TERANAL, MAY 5 1. GV Soldiers on top of hill after battle with rebels. 0.04 2. SV Soldier pointing to show the direction from which the rebels came. 0.08 3. CU BACK TO SV Shack covered with bullet holes. 0.14 4. GV Armed soldiers standing on hillside with dead body in foreground. 0.17 CHALATENANGO, RECENT 5. SV's Rebels seated on ground reading. (2 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 23rd May 1987 13:00
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- Location: CERRO TERANAL, SAN SALVADOR & VARIOUS, EL SALVADOR
- Country: El Salvador
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA6QYHQNB781RYS0HR6C5NXLC1J
- Story Text: CERRO TERANAL, SAN SALVADOR & VARIOUS, EL SALVADOR
An army outpost guarding the central Salvadoran city of San Vicente repulsed an attack by an estimated 100 guerrillas on May in what is the latest incident in an escalating campaign by the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). A number of government soldiers were wounded in the attack, which followed claims by the rebel radio station that the anti-government offensive was being stepped up. The rebel radio Venceremos said nearly 3,000 soldiers had been killed so far this year: On March 31 the FMLN launched an audacious attack on the El Paraiso military barracks in the province of Chalatenango, leaving 64 Salvadoran troops dead and killing a military adviser from the United States (US). In the early years of the seven-year-old war the rebels confined their attacks to vulnerable targets like small villages in the countryside or carried out acts of economic sabotage, like interrupting power supplies. The assaults on bigger military targets put further pressure on the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, which is struggling under an economic crisis and the slow pace of reconstruction after las year's earthquake.
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