Suspected FARC Rebel Attack Kills Eight Colombian Police

From Times Online:

BOGOTA (AFP) — Eight Colombian police were killed and another wounded Friday in a suspected attack by Marxist FARC rebels in eastern Colombia, officials told AFP.

The ambush took place early Friday in the town of Fortul, not far from the Venezuelan border, a police spokesman for the Arauca region told AFP.

Gun-toting attackers "activated the device and finished the police off with rifle shots. They killed the commander of the station, the deputy commander, the secretary, two corporals and three patrolmen," said the spokesman on condition of anonymity.

Another police officer was wounded and transferred to a local hospital.

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