BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Soldiers on Sunday freed two high-ranking police officers who were among Colombia’s longest-held rebel captives in a raid in southern jungles, President Alvaro Uribe announced.
Both Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo were captured by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the November 1998 siege of the remote eastern provincial capital of Mitu.
Uribe did not provide details of the rescue other than to say, “The combat is continuing.” Sunday was Mendieta’s 53rd birthday.
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