At least 37 killed in clashes in Colombia
Clashes and violence raged through Colombia
Saturday, leading to the death of at least 37 persons, police and local
media reported.
In northern Colombia, government troops and militants of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National
Liberation Army (ELN) clashed Saturday, with 27 rebels and six
government troops killed and 78 members of the rebel groups captured,
according to local media.
Meanwhile, near the city of Barrancabermeja, four members of the same
family were killed by rightwing paramilitaries, police said.
Colombia has been locked in a four-decade civil war, the longest in
Latin America, in which government forces, leftist guerrillas and
far-right paramilitaries fight one another. The conflicts kill more than
3,000 people a year.
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