Authorities today were still trying to ascertain a motive for the attack.

Hunger is so severe in drought-ridden southern Madagascar that many people in remote villages have eaten almost nothing but cactus fruit for up to four years.

The campaign is demanding better pay, beginning with a hike of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. It is currently a paltry $7.25 and has not budged in seven years.

Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana.

Castro's reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis.