British Passport Found on Body After Rebel Clash

The Colombian army found the passport of a 28-year-old Briton on the headless body of a man killed when soldiers clashed with rebels, the army and British Embassy said.

The passport bore the name Jeremy Parks, the army said. Investigators were looking into the possibility that Parks had been kidnapped by rebels or that his passport had been stolen, the embassy said.

Sensitivity over foreign combatants in Colombia has been high since the August arrest of three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army, who are being held in Bogota, the capital, on charges of training rebels to build bombs and other weapons.