Slaying of 5 indigenous leaders shocks Colombians

A man looks under a car riddled by bullets on the road leading to Tacueyo, in southwest Colombia, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Five indigenous leaders of the Tacueyo reservation were killed late Tuesday when the two vehicles they were traveling in were ambushed by gunmen the government says are part of a dissident front of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.(AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)

People gather around a car riddled by bullets on the road leading to Tacueyo, in southwest Colombia, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Five indigenous leaders of the Tacueyo reservation were killed late Tuesday when the two vehicles they were traveling in were ambushed by gunmen the government says are part of a dissident front of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)

People gather around a car riddled by bullets on the road leading to Tacueyo, in southwest Colombia, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Five indigenous leaders of the Tacueyo reservation were killed late Tuesday when the two vehicles they were traveling in were ambushed by gunmen the government says are part of a dissident front of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)

TACUEYO, Colombia — President Ivan Duque traveled Wednesday to a conflict-ridden zone in Colombia’s southwest to oversee a military offensive aimed at hunting down a band of suspected renegade rebels blamed for the killing of five indigenous leaders.

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