
8 members of powerful cartel shot dead days after one of its top commanders killed in Colombia
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Eight members of Colombia's largest cartel have died in clashes with security forces, the army said Tuesday, the latest in a series of raids against one of Latin America's most powerful criminal groups.
Days after the death of a top Gulf Clan capo, the military said it had killed several more of the cartel's members and taken two captive during an operation in the country's northwest. In a social media post, the army said it had also seized "abundant war material and supplies."
The Gulf Clan was born from right-wing paramilitary groups that fought leftist guerrillas in the 1990s -- before turning their attention to the cocaine trade.

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