DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR
Monday, 7 May 2001
At least 17 people killed in
Colombia clashes, massacres
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BOGOTA -- At least 17 Colombian civilians and rebels were killed in
clashes and massacres on Sunday.
Local reports said that six farmers were killed by unknown assailants in
Cauca province in the south of the country.
In the north, right-wing paramilitaries killed four youths.
Clashes with government troops also left six rebels of the leftist
Revolutionary Armed Forces dead in the country's southwest.
Also Sunday, the rebels ambushed a police patrol in the Huila district,
leaving one civilian dead and eight injured.
In the capital Bogota, meanwhile, the secret service arrested a leading
member of the right-wing guerrilla group AUC.
Dumar Guerrero is accused of having taken part in two 1997 massacres in
the Meta district that left 35 people dead.
Copyright 2001 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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