Latinnews Daily - 2 October 2003

Colombia's public prosecutor, Luis Camilo Osorio, said yesterday that the government has no information linking the tourists kidnapped last month by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) to alleged gun-running activities. The eight tourists, who were captured by the ELN in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, include four Israelis, two Britons, a Spaniard and a German. One of the Britons has since escaped and returned to the UK.