ELN Hands Back 2 Soldiers Held As Hostages
November 17 2015
National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas have freed two Colombian soldiers captured last month and being held as hostages, reports EFE (Spain).
The two were handed over on Monday to a Red Cross-led humanitarian mission in Arauca province, near the border with Venezuela.
The soldiers were seized on Oct. 26 during fighting with the guerrillas. Twelve of their comrades were killed during the battle.
The ELN is the second-largest guerrilla group in Colombia, after the FARC....
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