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Pablo Escobar's hit man dies after short battle with cancer

| February 6, 2020 8:30 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former hit man for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday after a short battle with cancer, prison authorities said.

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