ELN rebels holding two Colombian soldiers after attack

[WorldNews]

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Colombian rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is holding two soldiers hostage after capturing them in an attack that killed 12 troops and police, officials said Tuesday. "Two soldiers have been kidnapped," said Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas after President Juan Manuel Santos convened an extraordinary meeting of his national security council in the wake of Monday's attack in the remote indigenous reserve of Bachira. It disrupted what Santos had called the most peaceful elections in conflict-torn Colombia's recent history.

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