Incident Date:
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013 - January 31, 2013
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Colombia
Perpetrators: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Industrial/Textiles/Factories)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "01/30/2013: Assailants abducted three engineers from Canadian oil field Gran Tierra Energy in Piamonte municipality, Cauca, Colombia. The victims were abducted while driving along a highway outside Piamonte. The engineers were released after Colombia military intervention on 1/31/2013. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)."
References: 1) GTD 2006-2013 datafile
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