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April 16, 2018

Ecuador Accuses Colombian Rebel Group of Killing 2 Journalists and Driver
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Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno said Friday that two journalists and
their driver were kidnapped and murdered along the border with Colombia.
Reporter Javier Ortega, photographer Paúl Rivas and their driver, Efraín
Segarra, were working for the daily newspaper El Comercio at the time of
their kidnapping on March 26. Ecuador is blaming a Colombian rebel group
called Oliver Sinisterra Front for the murders.


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