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Escobar aide killed

Sunday 21 March 1993 00:02 GMT
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BOGOTA (AP) - Pablo Escobar's closest lieutenant and top hitman was killed on Friday in a police shoot-out in Medellin, the government announced. Mario Castano was the last of Escobar's longtime lieutenants who had not been caught or killed.

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