Colombian Foreign Legion corporal escapes from his FARC dissident captors
Kidnapped on August 6 during a leave in Colombia, José Olger Melo Charry managed to escape and joined a police station.
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Colombian Foreign Legion corporal José Olger Melo Charry, kidnapped on August 6 by ex-FARC dissidents in Nariño, escaped from his captors and reached a police station.
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José Olger Melo Charry, a corporal in the Foreign Legion on leave, was taken hostage on August 6 in the department of Nariño.
The Colombian corporal of the French Foreign Legion who was kidnapped in southwest Colombia by ex-FARC dissidents while on leave managed to escape his captors, according to Colombian media on Monday. According to a military source, the soldier is “doing well” after escaping his captors.
José Olger Melo Charry managed to escape after being detained for several days by FARC dissidents in Nariño, and reached a police station on his own, says the newspaper El Tiempo. He spent four days in the wild before reaching it on Saturday evening, according to the daily.
José Olger Melo Charry, corporal on leave, was taken hostage on August 6
On Sunday morning, he was airlifted from El Ejido to Pasto, capital of Nariño state. Arriving in Pasto, he was taken to a medical center where he remains under observation, accompanied by his family,” adds the Colombian newspaper.
José Olger Melo Charry, a corporal on leave, was taken hostage on August 6 while traveling on a road in the department of Nariño, in the southwest of the country. The Colombian guerrillas of the EMC, the main splinter group of the ex-FARC, had claimed its capture.
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