Guatemala ex-fighters abduct four journalists

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Four Guatemalan journalists and a human rights official were abducted by former paramilitaries during a protest on Sunday and were being held as their captors demanded payment for helping the army in a long civil war.

The director of the Prensa Libre newspaper, which employed all four of the journalists, said two of them were seized at a demonstration in the western highlands and the other two were taken when they flew in by helicopter with human rights officials in a bid to win the others' release.

Police spokesman Pedro Garcia said one of the officials from the human rights office was also being held. One of the captured journalists, photographer Mario Linares, worked occasionally for Reuters.

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