Three foreign journalists, including the reporter who interviewed US Taliban suspect John Walker Lindh, were believed kidnapped Tuesday by Colombian attackers, police said.
The three, said to be part of a camera crew, disappeared Sunday near Paya, a remote Indian village, just north of the Colombian border.
Tuesday night, police searchers found the bodies of three people who police said had been killed in the attack.
However, it was unclear whether those killed were the missing journalists because authorities were also looking for three Indians from Paya believed to have been killed during the attack, according to AP.
Panama's National Police said the three were missing and believed kidnapped. They were identified as Mark Wedeven, Megan A. Smaker and Robert Y. Pelton.
Panamanian National Police spokesman Carlos Bares said authorities were scouring the area near Paya, but that they were not sure where the abducted journalists had been taken. "They could be in Colombia," Bares said. (Albawaba.com)
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