Eight tourists kidnapped in Colombia

Updated: 12:13, Monday, 15 September 2003

Police in Colombia say eight foreign tourists have been kidnapped by suspected members of the left-wing guerrilla group, FARC.

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The group is believed to include four Israelis, two Britons, a German and a Spaniard.

Thousands of troops have been mobilised to search for the missing tourists in the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada, over 450 miles north of the capital, Bogota.

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