Honduras' top prosecutor unhurt in gun attack
Last Updated: Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 10:16 PM ET
The Associated Press
Honduran Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi escaped unharmed when gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying him and his bodyguards, police said Sunday.
Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato Rubi said the convoy was travelling on a northern highway when assailants opened fire Saturday night. Cerrato said no one was hurt. One car was damaged.
He did not give a motive for the attack or say whether it was related to Honduras' four-month political crisis. But he speculated the attack could be an attempt to "provoke unease in the country."
After the June coup, it was Rubi who filed criminal charges against ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Honduras is also home to violent, well-armed street gangs.
Meanwhile, the interim government issued a statement asking members of a commission monitoring implementation of a U.S.-brokered political deal not to take sides or make statements that can complicate the dispute, "much less celebrate that one of the sides has unilaterally broken the accord."
The government appeared to be responding to comments by former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, who on Saturday told CNN en Espanol that interim President Roberto Micheletti broke the agreement by unilaterally forming a unity government without Zelaya's input.
Micheletti announced late Thursday that a power-sharing government had been created even though coup-deposed Zelaya had not submitted his list of members.
Zelaya again said Sunday the pact is dead. "That dialogue was deceiving," Zelaya told Radio Globo.
Representatives from the Organization of American States have met with both sides to try to salvage the accord but the two sides have not agreed to more talks.
