Soldiers on Sunday freed two high-ranking police officers and an army sergeant who were among Colombia’s longest-held rebel captives in a raid in southern jungles.
President Alvaro Uribe announced the rescue of police Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, both captured by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in a November 1998 siege of the remote eastern provincial capital of Mitu.
Also freed was soldier Arbey Delgado, who was held since an August 1998 rebel attack on an anti-drug outpost in the southern jungle town of Miraflores, according a Defense Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly.
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