Four injured in drunken machete brawl

Question: What do you get when you mix large amounts of alcohol and some sharp machetes? Answer: a busy night in the emergency room. On Friday night, Alta Vista Village was the scene of what police describe as a drunken brawl that ended with four men in the hospital. The most badly injured in the chopping spree was thirty-two year old Jose Franco, who received cuts to the mouth, shoulder, and buttocks. He remains in the K.H.M.H. The other three: twenty-five old Cesar Pinto, twenty-one year old Elmer Franco and twenty-four year old Ervin Augustine, received various blows and are recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga.