TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran air force planes strafed Nicaraguan artillery positions and ground troops and engaged a formation of military helicopters, destroying one, said a communique issued by the armed forces on national radio stations Friday night.
The communique said the Honduran air force planes attacked the Sandinista positions in retaliation for a Nicaraguan mortar attack earlier in the day on the Honduran side of the border. One Honduran soldier was killed and eight were seriously wounded.
