Colombian editor murdered

BOGOTA - A newspaper editor was shot and killed in south west Colombia in a crime the nation's most senior general yesterday …

BOGOTA - A newspaper editor was shot and killed in south west Colombia in a crime the nation's most senior general yesterday blamed on "narcoterrorism".

Gen Harold Bedoya, the armed forces chief and a cousin of the victim, promised to bring the killers to justice. It was the second murder of a journalist in a week.

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