Colombian and Ecuadorean troops search jungle for dissident FARC group
19 April 2018 |
9:29 am
Colombian and Ecuadorean troops continued on Wednesday (April 18) a joint operation in the jungles of southwestern Colombia to search for an insurgent group believed to have kidnapped two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver recently.
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