Colombian dissident FARC rebels free captive U.N. official - government


  • World
  • Wednesday, 05 Jul 2017

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's dissident FARC rebels freed a member of a United Nations team it had taken hostage while he was working on a project to substitute illegal crops with legal ones, the government said on Wednesday.

The Colombian United Nations contractor was seized on May 3 by gunmen close to Miraflores in southern Guaviare province, where coca cultivation has long formed a key part of Colombia's cocaine production. He was stopped by armed men in a convoy of vehicles.

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