Last Colombian soldiers released from rural village where they were held | Conflict News

Hundreds of people blocked soldiers on a drug-trafficking patrol from leaving a village in rural southwestern Colombia.

A group of 45 Colombian soldiers have been retrieved from a village controlled by rebel fighters in the country’s rural southwest, where authorities say they were blocked from leaving by a group of about 600 civilians.

The Colombian military said on Monday that the last remaining soldiers had been retrieved “without incident” and…