Seven Colombian Soldiers
Killed In
Rebel Attack
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Seven Colombian
Soldiers Killed In
Rebel Attack
Bogota -- At least seven
Colombian soldiers were killed on Sunday in
an attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) near its border with
Ecuador, the army said.
The soldiers were patrolling the town of
Samaneigo in Ecuador's border province of
Narino when they were attacked by FARC
militants. Seven soldiers were killed and
three others were injured in the ambush, the
army said.
The attack occurred after President Alvaro
Uribe ordered government forces to halt a
wave of violence in Narino where guerrillas
and drug traffickers were fighting for the
control of the land.
The FARC, Colombia's biggest rebel group,
has been fighting government troops for more
than 40 years.
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