At least 18 people were killed in Colombia in clashes between holdouts from the former rebel group FARC and another armed group linked to drug trafficking
The two groups have fought for control of smuggling routes near the border between Colombia and Ecuador.
The government ombudsman's office said on Sunday that the fighting occurred a day earlier in southwest Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. The latter is composed of other fighters that used to be with FARC and remnants of a right-wing paramilitary group active in trafficking cocaine to Ecuador and Brazil.
The fighting occurred in Puerto Guzman, about 60 kilometres from the southern border with Ecuador, the government's ombudsman's office said.Colombia has been consumed by more than half a century of armed conflict between the state and various groups of left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug traffickers.
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