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Colombia massacre troops jailed
A Colombian army colonel and 14 other soldiers have received prison sentences of up to 54 years for the killing of 10 undercover police officers in 2006. Former Lt Col Bayron Carvajal was given 54 years for ordering the ambush near the southern town of Jamundi.
The police were lured to a medical centre by an informant who told them there was cocaine hidden there. When the undercover officers arrived, they and the informant were shot dead. No drugs were ever found.
Carvajal, who was not at the scene of the massacre, said he thought his troops were attacking leftist rebels who were working with drug traffickers.
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The dead officers belonged to an elite unit of Colombia's judicial investigative police, and had trained in the US.
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