Committee president suffers suspicious accident

La Havana, August 25, (Nestor Baguer, APIC) - Mrs. Odilia Collazo, acting president of the Dissidence Support Task Force Committee, suffered an automobile accident this last Saturday, at about 3:45 P.M. while traveling together with her husband. The Chevrolet transporting the activist was suddenly charged by a bus belonging to the Julio Antonio Mella contingent.

Odilia suffered severe injuries, mostly to her face. Her loss of blood was only contained after applying stitches. Both victims received treatment at the Emergencias hospital where they were conducted. Her husband required medical attention for severe chest contusions, with possible involvement of the rib cage.

It is important to point out that this collision becomes highly suspicious due to occurring just after Mrs. Odilia Collazo assumed the presidency of the Dissidence Support Task Force Committee (Comite de Apoyo al Grupo de Trabajo de la Disidencia). Mrs. Collazo assumed the group's presidency after the previous committee members; Vladimiro Roca, Felix Bonne Carcasses, Dr. Gomez Manzano, and the economist Marta Beatriz Roque, were all incarcerated.

Translated directly from the Spanish electronic version by Rico Rikki.