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Colombia's defense minister says French journalist may be a FARC hostage. Romeo Langlois disappeared during an attack that killed at least four people.
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said on Monday that FARC rebels may be holding a French journalist hostage.
Romeo Langlois was reporting alongside Colombian security forces when he disappeared after a Saturday gun battle that killed at least four.
Authorities said they don't know where the Frenchman is, and Pinzon said they would take concrete action when they have better knowledge of Langlois' location.
[Juan Carlos Pinzon, Colombian Defense Minister]:
"Of course there are operations, but we are not doing rescue operations because we do not know where the journalist is. When we get knowledge of his location, it will be time to make some decisions, decisions we would discuss with the French government."
The gunfight reportedly broke out as police and military personnel sought to dismantle drug laboratories in the jungles of Caqueta, southern Colombia.
Witness reports say Langlois, who has been in Colombia about 12 years, removed his bulletproof vest and helmet and ran toward the rebels, possibly in a bid to prove he was not a member of the armed forces.
The FARC have kept hostages in the past for political leverage, but said recently they would give up the practice.