For a time, the Blake family suspected that the guerrillas had killed their son.

Guerrillas killed six soldiers today in attacks on an army post and a bridge, the authorities said.

"Neither the army nor the guerrillas killed my child."

The guerrillas killed 47 peasants, including 14 children aged four to fifteen.

Marxist guerrillas have killed several civilians in recent weeks and threatened others with death.

They attacked after the guerrillas killed six soldiers in an ambush last weekend.

The guerrillas killed at least 10 police officers and paramilitary soldiers in their takeover of the building, the officials said.

Five months after the payment the guerrillas killed another Ford executive and his three bodyguards.

If the guerrillas kill a member of the security force, his fellow troops might massacre 30 people in retaliation.

In another incident, three guerrillas shot and killed a police officer in poor section of the city.