2 Currency Traders Slain

GUATEMALA CITY —  Unidentified gunmen broke into the home of a Nicaraguan man and woman who operated a foreign exchange house, killing them and their Guatemalan maid, a police spokesman said.

The slain Nicaraguans were identified as Alba Susana Fiallos, 35, and Eugenio Escudero Montalvan, 20, police spokesman Roberto Serrano said last week.

Serrano said Fiallos’ 14-year-old daughter found the bodies of her mother, a friend who lived with them and a Guatemalan maid named Bertila Quinonez with bullet wounds in the head when she returned home from school Wednesday.

Police suspect robbery and were investigating the Nicaraguans’ currency exchange business, which was illegal until the government legalized the black market exchange of dollars a month ago, Serrano said.