Colombia AG's office says ELN plotting to attack top prosecutor

FILE PHOTO: Francisco Barbosa, Colombian Attorney General speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bogota, Colombia March 24, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office is investigating an alleged planned attack by National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels against top prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, it said on Tuesday.

The announcement of the investigation comes less than a week after the ELN, a Marxist group that has fought the state since 1964, and the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro began a six-month ceasefire as part of peace talks to end the guerrillas' part in Colombia's conflict.