The leader of Colombia's main rebel group, Alfonso Cano, has been killed in combat hours after his nearby camp was bombed, authorities have said.

COLOMBIA’S military killed the field marshal and number two commander of the country’s main leftist rebel group in bombing raids, authorities said.

THREE Irishmen gave instructions on explosives and mortars, and lessons on the use of car bombs, a key witness told a Colombian court yesterday.

A jailed Marxist guerrilla told a Colombian court today he saw three foreigners training rebels and testing weapons and drove one of them around.

Three suspected members of the IRA arrested in Colombia were training left-wing guerrillas in urban bombings, it has been reported.