Bogota - The president of the peace commission of Colombia's Congress and five other people were killed yesterday when their convoy was fired on in what police said bore the marks of an attack by the country's biggest rebel group, the FARC.
Mr Diego Turbay (47), a member of the opposition Liberal party, his mother and four other people were travelling to a political event when the attack happened in a southern jungle area near the enclave controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and a no-go area to state security forces.
Police said gunmen fired on the convoy, which was travelling from the town of Florencia, the capital of the department of Caqueta, to the village of Puerto Rico yesterday morning.