New York Times

February 7, 1958. p. 9.

2 Slain In Cuban Attack

Jeep Is Fired On by a Group in Oriente Province

Special to The New York Times

HAVANA, Feb. 6—Two persons were killed and two wounded when a jeep in which they were riding near Guantánamo, Oriente Province, was attacked by a group, it was reported today. The report said the group had fired on the vehicle with rifles and shotguns. The dead were an old man and a woman.

Recently the army was said to be pursuing a group of rebels who had appeared in the vicinity of Guantánamo. That city is situated east of Santiago de Cuba and a considerable distance from the Sierra Maestra, stronghold of Fidel Castro and his insurgents.

Three buses were burned in a suburb of Santiago today by groups of youths. The driver and two passengers were wounded when one group fired on a bus in the outskirts of Santiago.