Colombia’s army commander said that forces are tightening the circle around the area of San Vicente del Caguan, Caqueta, where four Chinese oil workers were abducted by suspected FARC
“For the military pressure we are exerting there has not been contact but in the coming days we can turn in good news, given the advances in operations in the area,” said army commander General Alejandro Navas in a Monday report from El Espectador.
The four Sinochem employees — who were being contracted by British oil company Emerald Energy — were traveling in a car near the town of San Vicente de Caguan, in the southern department of Caqueta, when a group of armed men blocked the road and took them hostage, reported local government official Edilberto Ramon Henido to international news agency AFP.
The hostage takers are reported to be members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and according to the national police, kidnapped the Chinese workers in order to collect ransom payments.