P.M. BRIEFING : Bolivian Industrialist Kidnaped
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hooded gunmen kidnaped Bolivian industrialist Jorge Lonsdale, chairman of Coca-Cola’s subsidiary in Bolivia, as he drove to work today, police said.
Witnesses said three men intercepted Lonsdale’s car three blocks from his office and shot and seriously wounded his chauffeur.
The Coca-Cola executive was bundled into the trunk of a waiting car which sped off toward the northern sector of La Paz, the witnesses told a local radio station.
Police said they did not know whether the industrialist was wounded in the shooting.
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