El Salvador: Sisters killed, 2-month-old girl missing

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Police in El Salvador say two sisters aged 21 and 7 have been slain and a 2-month-old girl is missing and believed to have been kidnapped by the killers.

National police Commissioner Howard Cotto says the victims’ bodies were found in a rural area outside San Salvador. They disappeared after being seen helping their mother at a market in the capital on Thursday. Both were shot once in the head.

The 21-year-old was the mother of the missing infant, and an imprisoned gang member is believed to be the father. Cotto says she had broken up with him and begun a new relationship.

Cotto said Friday that the gangster had apparently threatened her life. At least two suspects in the killings may belong to the same gang.