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New Photos of Aquino Death

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January 5, 1984 at 7:00 p.m. EST

MANILA -- The fact-finding panel investigating opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr.'s assassination inspected previously unpublished photographs showing a man in civilian clothes, apparently carrying a gun, running from the scene.

The 13 photographs, taken by Recto Mercene of Manila's Times Journal newspaper with a motor-driven camera, were the first evidence that an armed civilian was present when Aquino arrived Aug. 21 from three years of self-exile in the United States.

The pictures show uniformed soldiers armed with rifles crouched or prone around a military van, at the rear of which lie the bodies of Aquino and his alleged assassin, Rolando Galman. A man in a white T-shirt and apparently carrying a gun is near the upper right corner of the photographs.