BOGOTA (Reuters) – Twenty-nine members of Colombia’s security forces have been kidnapped from two locations in Cauca province after attacks by a FARC dissident faction, the defense ministry said on Friday. The incidents took place in El Plateado, where security forces are carrying out a months-long intervention against armed groups, and La Hacienda, the defense […]
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Colombia says 29 security force members kidnapped in Cauca province
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BOGOTA (Reuters) – Twenty-nine members of Colombia’s security forces have been kidnapped from two locations in Cauca province after attacks by a FARC dissident faction, the defense ministry said on Friday.
The incidents took place in El Plateado, where security forces are carrying out a months-long intervention against armed groups, and La Hacienda, the defense ministry said in a statement, blaming the Carlos Patino faction dissidents from the former FARC rebels who rejected a 2016 peace deal for the kidnapping.
“The lives and security of the kidnapped members of the security forces are the direct responsibility of those who committed this loathsome crime,” the ministry said.
(Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb)