<!--IMAGE-LEFT-->Colombian officials say a French journalist is missing along with five soldiers after being attacked by leftist rebels during a mission in southern Colombia.
The Defense Ministry said three soldiers and a police officer were killed Sunday in the gun battle with the FARC rebels.
It said Romeo Langlois, a reporter for news channel France 24, was accompanying police and military forces on a mission to dismantle drug laboratories in the jungles of the southern state of Caqueta.
FARC has been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s. Their numbers have dwindled over the years, but some analysts estimate the group has as many as 9,000 fighters.
FARC has been designated as a terrorist organization by Colombia, the United States and the European Union.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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