Alleged Colombian drugs trafficker arrested

The authorities in Colombia say they have captured one of the country's leading drug traffickers, Justino Rubiano Martinez.

A senior police official, General Luis Ernesto Gilibert, said Mr Rubiano Martinez was captured on Wednesday in a northern suburb of the capital, Bogota.

Mr Gilibert said that Mr Rubiano Martinez is suspected of operating a number of illegal laboratories in southern Colombia used to process cocaine.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service