Seven Colombian rebels, including some who were involved in the kidnapping of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, were killed Sunday in a military strike, officials announced, DPA reported.
The newspaper El Espectador quoted General Juan Carlos Salazar as saying that, among the seven rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members killed was the leftist militia's finance chief, who went under the alias Diomedez.
The fatal fight was in the area around the town of Milan.
Betancourt was abducted on February 23, 2002 in southern Colombia while campaigning and only released after a military assault in July 2008.
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