Ex-Cycling Champ Abducted by Rebels
From Times Wire Reports
Colombian military troops and police combed the mountains south of Bogota after suspected leftist rebels kidnapped Luis Alberto Herrera, the 1987 Vuelta de Espana cycling champion. Herrera was grabbed by seven heavily armed men from his parents’ farm near Fusagasuga. The abduction came a month after suspected rebels from the National Liberation Army freed cyclist Oliverio Rincon after keeping him for 10 days.
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