FILE PHOTO: Colombia's Marxist FARC Jesus Santrich gestures during a news conference in Bogota, Colombia November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Jesus Santrich, one of the most prominent leaders of a group of Colombia's former FARC rebels who reject a 2016 peace accord, has been killed in Venezuela in an operation by Colombia's military, former FARC dissidents said late on Tuesday.
Santrich was traveling by a truck in Venezuela when it was attacked by Colombian commandos the dissident group, which calls itself the Segunda Marquetalia, said in a statement.
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