FARC Frees Last Foreign Hostage

Hostages

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 3:59PM EDT / Published Mar. 18, 2009 2:37AM EDT

About FARCing time: The Associated Press reports that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known by its acronym FARC, has released its last known foreign hostage: a 69-year-old partially paralyzed Swede named Erik Roland Larsson. Paralyzed in half his body, Larsson was kidnapped with his Colombian wife in May 2007. (She escaped that same month following a gunbattle between guerillas and police.) FARC had sought a $5 million ransom for Larsson, but it’s unclear if it was actually paid.

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FARC Frees Last Foreign Hostage