The World - News from Dec. 27, 1987

A hand grenade exploded in a hotel room north of Managua while a Canadian woman was handling it, killing her and a Sandinista army officer, the Nicaraguan Interior Ministry reported in a statement. It identified the victims as Jenny Grant More, 26, of Hamilton, Ontario, who was in Nicaragua as a volunteer to help harvest coffee, and 2nd Lt. Roger Mendez Zeron. It said the woman “handled a fragmentation grenade, causing a regrettable accident in which (she) died instantly,” at the Plaza Hotel in Matagalpa, 80 miles north of Managua. The statement did not say whose grenade it was.