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Rebel attack kills 9 soldiers, Colombian army says

Agencia EFEMay 22, 2013 17:00
Bogota, May 22 (EFE).- The death toll from the attack staged by National Liberation Army, or ELN, guerrillas on soldiers in a rural area outside Chitaga, a city in Colombia's Norte de Santander province, has risen to nine, the army said Wednesday. "The army's 2nd Division command regrets to report that the number of our soldiers murdered in a terrorist attack perpetrated by members of the ELN has risen to nine," the army said in a statement.

Nine soldiers killed in Colombia rebel attack

Agence France-PresseMay 22, 2013 16:15
Nine soldiers were killed and six wounded in an attack the government blamed Wednesday on the ELN, Colombia's second largest leftist guerrilla group. The soldiers were attacked with home-made explosives in north-eastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, officials said. President Juan Manuel Santos broke the news in a message on Twitter. "Six heroes of our army (died) in an ELN attack in Norte de Santander. Our hearts are with their families." The regional army command later issued a statement raising the death toll to nine.

ELN rebels kill 6 soldiers in fighting in Colombia

Agencia EFEMay 22, 2013 15:49
Bogota, May 22 (EFE).- Six soldiers were killed in an attack staged by National Liberation Army, or ELN, guerrillas in a rural area outside Chitaga, a city in Colombia's Norte de Santander province, President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday. "We are saddened by the deaths of these six heroes from our army in the ELN attack in Norte de Santander. Our hearts are with their families," Santos said in a Twitter posting.

Colombian rebels free two German hostages: Red Cross

March 8, 2013 18:01
Colombian rebels on Friday freed two Germans they had taken hostage in November, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The two men were turned over by National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas in a rural part of northeast Colombia to a humanitarian team that included ICRC delegates, the aid group said in a statement. The men were identified as Uwe and Otto Breuer, brothers aged 69 and 73. They were kidnapped four months ago in the same region of Norte de Santander department where they were released Friday.

Colombian rebels free two German hostages: Red Cross

March 8, 2013 15:16
Colombian rebels on Friday freed two Germans whom they had taken hostage in November, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The two men were turned over by National Liberation Army guerrillas in a rural area of northeast Colombia to a delegation that included Red Cross members, the ICRC said in a statement. The men were identified as Uwe and Otto Breuer, brothers aged 69 and 73. They were kidnapped four months ago in the same region of Norte de Santander department where they were released Friday.

UPDATE 3-Colombia's ELN guerrillas free two Germans hostages

March 8, 2013 14:30
(Adds German foreign minister comment) By Jack Kimball BOGOTA, March 8 (Reuters) - Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group on Friday freed two German men that the rebels had held since November, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The two were being transferred by helicopter from a jungle location to an airport in northeast Norte de Santander province, and handed over to the German Embassy and representatives of Colombia's government, according to the ICRC.

Colombian rebels say holding Canadian engineer

February 18, 2013 11:16
Colombia's ELN guerrilla group said Monday they were still holding a Canadian engineer after releasing five other captured mining company employees last week. "Canadian engineer Jernoc Wobert, 47, continues to be detained by guerrillas of the National Liberation Army in the San Lucas mountain range," an ELN unit, the Dario Ramirez Castro Front, said in a statement on the group's website.

Colombia's ELN rebels say five hostages released

February 13, 2013 06:17
Colombia's ELN rebels said late Tuesday they had released five employees of a Canadian mining company kidnapped last month. In a statement published on the www.eln-voces.com website, the ELN said it had freed five Geo Explorer employees -- three Colombians and two Peruvians -- kidnapped January 18. They made no mention of a Canadian citizen whom the Colombian army said earlier this month was among those seized by "bandits" from the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) in the north of the country.

Colombia rebels seek details on Germans being held

February 11, 2013 13:46
Leftist Colombian rebels holding two Germans hostage have asked their families for information about the pair, a statement said Monday, suggesting they may be preparing to release them. National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas earlier identified their captives, who have been held for over three months, as "Messrs. Breur Uwe and Breuer Gunther Otto, of alleged German nationality." The men were captured in the Catatumbo region, in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, the group said, claiming they were spies.

Colombian ELN rebels want proof German hostages aren't spies

February 11, 2013 12:15
BOGOTA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group has asked for proof that two German men it holds hostage are tourists and not intelligence agents, the rebels said on Monday. The National Liberation Army, known as the ELN, captured the two men in November 2012, the government says, in a sparsely populated area near the Venezuelan border but only made the kidnapping public earlier this month. Germany said that the two were retirees and had been traveling as tourists.
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