Head of Medelllin secret police assassinated

Gunmen on motorcycles have killed the new chief of secret police as he drove his car in Medellin, Colombia.

Fri, 06 Sep, 2002 - 09:11

Gunmen on motorcycles have killed the new chief of secret police as he drove his car in Medellin, Colombia.

The killing of Fernando Mancilla in Colombia's second largest city was similar in style to the numerous assassinations carried out by Pablo Escobar's Medellin cocaine cartel in the 1980s and 1990s.

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