The fugitive chief of Colombia's rebel movement FARC is reported to have died.
‘According to the (intelligence) information that we have, Marulanda is already dead,’ Juan Manuel Santos, the country's defence minister was quoted as saying.
The elusive Manuel Marulanda Velez founded the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) over 40 years ago.
He was last seen in public in 1982 and has been rumoured to be dead at least 17 times.
In January, a Brazilian newspaper reported a rumour that Mr Marulanda had terminal cancer.
Mr Marulanda was born in Genova, a coffee growing town in the western province of Quindio.
He took up arms as a teenager after several relatives died in political violence following the 1948 killing of leftist leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.
