Santos confirmed the death of knife, one of the most wanted criminals in Colombia

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, today confirmed the death of drug lord Pedro Guerrero, alias knife in an operation south of the country last December 25. Santos has defined a knife, who headed the criminal gang calling itself Anti-Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia as "a murderer of murderers, not surprisingly, was one of the men most wanted by security forces and some 3,000 murders attributed .


"Fell the murderer of murderers. We were behind him for many years. It had become a legend that was unattainable," Santos pointed out to the press. The president also revealed that reward those who assisted in the location of knife, and who offered a reward of up to 5,000 million pesos.

The nickname comes because it was the knife was the instrument used to kill the farmers who did not cooperate with him. A knife is attributed, among other crimes, the assassination of former paramilitary or killing Miguel Arroyave Mapiripán. Currently maintained a partnership with Daniel El Loco Barrera for drug trafficking and a confrontation with the FARC to control the routes.

In the United States was also wanted for drug trafficking and the authorities offered $ 2.5 million (1.9 million euros) to those who offer information leading to his arrest. Police operation in the operation of the December 25 killing two policemen and arrested eight employees of knife, who managed to escape despite being wounded.

Security forces found his body hours later and taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Bogota to confirm your identity. "This guy managed to slip away, but then the operation was planned for that if they could sneak a fence would have worked very effectively, which has happened in previous situations, he went looking for a stone.

Finally found this guy , which was identified and formally this morning at 2 and a half ago, via fingerprint, "said Santos.

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