2 US journalists and driver killed in Honduras attack

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

June 23, 1983

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Two American journalists and their Honduran driver were killed in a grenade attack by Nicaraguan troops across the Honduras border. The US Embassy named the two as Dial Torgerson of the Los Angeles Times and Richard Cross, a free-lance photographer on assignment for U.S. News & World Report. Nicaragua denied its soldiers were involved.