The World - News from Feb. 26, 1988

Salvadoran guerrillas blamed the government for the deaths of four people in attacks on buses during a rebel traffic ban that virtually paralyzed the country for three days. In the bloodiest incident, four people were killed and five were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a textile company bus carrying workers home from a factory near San Salvador. The ban, which has just ended, was part of a rebel offensive to disrupt local elections planned for March 20. In a statement over the clandestine Radio Venceremos, guerrilla commander Jorge Melendez claimed that the government was behind the attacks on the buses in an effort to discredit the rebels.