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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Gunmen shot and killed a paramilitary leader as he was dining at a restaurant in the western Colombian city of Medellin, police said Thursday. Jaime Andres Angarita, 33, was considered the right-hand man of warlord Salvatore Mancuso, the architect of a 2003 peace deal with the government that has led to the demobilization of 31,000 militia fighters.
Police in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, said Angarita was shot late Wednesday by two gunmen who escaped on a motorcycle. Authorities did not speculate on a motive.
Mancuso and other paramilitary leaders have complained of receiving death threats in recent months, purportedly to prevent them from revealing secrets about their ties to Colombia's political elite.
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