The World - News from June 29, 1986

A Honduran soldier who killed a U.S. Army sergeant and wounded another during military maneuvers said he was defending himself after the two attacked him. Miguel Angel Castro Flores, 24, jailed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, told reporters that the Americans grabbed him while he was filling his canteen at a river, tied him up and beat him “without justification.” He later freed himself, grabbed a knife from one of them and turned on his captors, he said. According to the U.S. account, Castro Flores attacked the two Americans after they took him “prisoner” during U.S.-Honduran war games June 21.