Lucky escape

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/06/2011

Kidnapped Colombian journalist Mario Esteban Lopez escaped being burned alive by kidnappers because the gasoline they doused him with wetted their matches, he told EFE. "I struggled with them, the pack of matches fell to the floor of the car and was left completely soaked," he said Friday by telephone from Southern Colombia. Lopez is director of Ipiales' Channel 22 television. He said the attack on him was the work of people associated with drug traffickers.

(IANS/EFE)

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