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A FARC rebel ambush near the Pacific port city of Tumaco...killed 10 soldiers and wounded 6.
It was the deadliest attack in over a year.
The troops were patrolling near a palm plantation.
Eleven of 27 soldiers escaped harm from the mortar attack...but a lieutenant and nine enlisted men were killed.
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