Local October 24, 2011 - 9:25 am

Thugs gun down respected retired general

Santo Domingo.- Retired Police general Andres Julio Alcantara will be buried today, after being shot and killed in a holdup when he left his daughter in a friend’s house in the sector Las Praderas Saturday night.

The retired officer passed away in a clinic in nearby Los Prados, after two thugs on a motorcycle approached him and told him it was a holdu., after resisting, the officer was slain and his sidearm taken by the assailants.

Alcantara, who held senior Police posts, was considered a serious and respectful man. He will be laid to rest at Maximo Gomez cemetery 11am today.

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