Gunmen kidnapped about 30 people from two restaurants and a farm outside Colombia's third-largest city on Sunday, and police were scrambling to try to identify the group responsible. Suspicion immediately fell on the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a Leftist rebel group which has kidnapped people in Colombia before, including dozens of people last year during a Catholic mass. But their culpability could not be immediately confirmed. “We estimate that about 30 people were taken,” said Cali Police Commander Rafael Pardo.
Colombia has one of the world's highest kidnapping rates. From the beginning of the year until July, 1,754 people were abducted in this south American country.
Further details were not immediately available.

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