An International Red Cross mission is heading for Colombia's remote jungles to collect a group of hostages that FARC guerrillas plan to hand over as a humanitarian gesture.
The proposed release this week of two captive politicians and four members of the armed forces is the first handover in a year by Latin America's longest-running insurgency, which has been battered by a U.S.-backed military crackdown.
A Brazilian helicopter carrying the mission to receive the hostages clattered into the jungles from Florencia town to pick up three captive police officers and one soldier in the first of three planned operations.
Sonia Legg reports.
