Colombia offers record $1.4m-reward for rebel it blames for deadly bomb attack

Colombia's Defence Minister Pedro Sánchez says he is offering a record reward for information leading to the capture of a rebel leader known as "Marlon". "Marlon", whose real name is Iván Jacob Idrobo Arredondo, is suspected of having ordered Saturday's bomb attack on the Pan-American Highway, in which 20 people were killed. The attack is one of the deadliest targeting civilians and comes just over a month before presidential elections scheduled for 31 May. Sánchez said the 5bn peso ($1.4m; £1m) reward for "Marlon" was the highest offered by Colombia. The defence minister accused "Marlon" of being behind Saturday's attack as well as a series of others in the provinces of Cauca and Valle del Cauca, in south-western Colombia, over the weekend. No evidence or details have been released. In the deadliest of these incidents, 15 women and five men were killed when an explosive device was detonated on the motorway connecting the cities of Cali and Popayán, the governor of Cauca province said. Several buses and other vehicles were destroyed in the blast, which opened up a huge crater. "Marlon" belongs to an armed group led by a dissident rebel known by the alias of Iván Mordisco, Colombia'