Alfonso Cano, the top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was killed by Colombian troops during an anti-guerrilla operation, officials announced.
"The military has thus achieved one of its most important goals," Alberto Gonzalez Mosquera, governor of Cauca department, told local radio.
Cano assumed the direction of the FARC in March 2008, after the death of Manuel Marulanda Velez. The FARC is Colombia's oldest and largest guerrilla force, believed to have some 8,000 members.
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