Colombian farm workers attacked, at least 34 dead

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AP , BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
Thursday, Jun 17, 2004,Page 7

Suspected leftist rebels gunned down at least 34 farm workers after tying them up at a ranch in a region that is among Colombia's biggest cocaine producers, authorities said.

The workers were sleeping in hammocks at the ranch near La Gabarra, 500km northeast of the capital, Bogota, when a group of armed men burst through the doors at dawn on Tuesday, tied them up with the hammocks' ropes and then shot them with automatic weapons, La Gabarra Mayor Taiz Ortega said.

At least five people were wounded and taken by boat to a hospital in the nearby town of Cucuta. It was the worst massacre in Colombia in at least a year.

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