Kidnapped official recounts escape
From Times Wire Reports
A former Cabinet minister emerged from six years in rebel captivity and said he fled through the jungle for five days after Colombian troops attacked the guerrillas who held him.
Fernando Araujo, 51, said he escaped from a guerrilla camp as troops battled the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. He walked through the mountainous jungle to the hamlet of San Agustin, 350 miles north of Bogota.
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