Colombia's Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday said at least 34 soldiers were kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle area of southeastern Colombia after clashes that left 11 guerrillas dead, including a commander of a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group.
The clashes occurred in a rural part of the El Retorno municipality in the southeastern province of Guaviare and involved members of the central general staff, a group of former FARC fighters who rejected a 2016 peace deal with the government.
Sanchez said on Tuesday that the soldiers were taken as they were evacuating the area after a military operation that killed an EMC commander and 10 other rebels.
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