Colombian soldier killed in clashes with FARC
The Colombian army says one of its soldiers has been killed in clashes with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group in the central part of the country.
According to a Thursday statement from the military, the soldier, identified as Wilson Tique, was shot by elements with the FARC in the central Meta department when he was removing "war material" from a guerrilla base there.
“During the extraction of war material, our soldiers were harassed by FARC guerrillas," the army said.
The violence comes as peace talks between Bogota and FARC aimed at ending the decades-long conflict restarted in Cuba on Thursday.
The two sides have been engaged in the on-off negotiations since November 2012, and have so far reached agreement on some issues, including ending the drug trafficking that has fueled the conflict. However, a final deal is still out of reach.
FARC, Latin America’s oldest rebel group, has been fighting the Colombian government since 1964. Decades of clashes between the two sides have left more than 200,000 people dead and over six million others displaced.
Earlier this month, the rebel group freed a Colombian soldier after almost 2 weeks. He was abducted on July 7 while fighting the FARC in Putumayo department in the south of the country.
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