Cuban dissident killed in accident

HAVANA — Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island’s communist regime for decades, has died in a car accident, the government and a priest said. Paya, 60, is the second key dissident to die in Cuba in less than a year. “His death has been confirmed. We went to the hospital and an official showed us his identification,” Manuel Gonzalez, a priest in the eastern Bayamo area, where the accident took place, said by telephone. Paya died Sunday on the road linking Bayamo, in Granma province about 750 km east of Havana, and the city of Las Tunas. “We don’t have any other details,” Gonzalez said. — AP