The bodies of three Ecuadorian media professionals who had been abducted on March on the border with Colombia were found in a jungle, according to Colombian authorities. The authorities said that 32-year-old reporter Javier, 45-year old photographer Paul Rivas and their 60-year old driver Efrain Segarra had been killed after being held hostage.
The trio who worked for the Ecuador’s influential El Comercio newspaper had gone to report on violence on the remote border with Colombia when they were kidnapped by suspected renegades of the former Colombian guerilla movement, FARC.