Officials from the FARC militants in Colombia announced that one of their peace negotiators had been killed in the Colombian government’s last bombing raid.
Pedro Nel Daza Martinez, also known as Jairo, was one of the 27 Farc militants killed in bombing raids last Thursday.
One of the rebel commanders, Pastor Alape, in a statement made on Wednesday, said,
“We inform the country and the world that comrade Jairo Martinez, a member of the Farc’s peace delegation in Havana, and who was on an educational peace mission, was among the guerrillas murdered.”
Mr Martinez had returned to Colombia from Havana after being appointed as a negotiator in February 2014.
A total of 40 Farc fighters have been killed in ground and airstrikes since Thursday, reports the Telegraph.
Negotiators have reached three agreements in a six-point agenda beign negotiated in Cuba.