Police are searching everywhere for Dr. Marciano Santos Salado, wanted for the Monday murder of the director of the regional public hospital in Mao and for wounding the subdirector of that institution. It is believed that Dr. Santos has fled Valverde Province and may try to leave the DR. For that reason the Attorney-General’s Office has ordered that the doctor not be allowed passage on any flight or voyage leaving the country. According to witnesses, on Monday Dr. Santos approached the director of Luis Bogaert Hospital, Dr. Jorge Antonio Guerrero, as he boarded his car in the hospital parking lot and shot him dead without saying a word. Santos Salado also shot hospital subdirector Dr. Jos? Leclerc, who was accompanying his boss when the tragedy occurred. Leclerc is in serious condition at a clinic in Santiago with a bullet lodged next to his spine. A team of specialists is trying to decide whether or not they can chance removing the bullet surgically without damaging the spine.
