Top Colombian rebel leader in intensive care after stroke
July 2, 2017 at 5:31 p.m.
| Updated July 2, 2017 at 5:45 p.m.
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FILE - In this June, 27, 2017 file photo, Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, gives his speech during an act to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process of FARC rebels, in Buenavista, Colombia. On Sunday, July 2, 2017, Timochenko was hospitalized with stroke, and remains in intensive care in Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Doctors in eastern Colombia say the top commander of the nation's largest rebel group has been hospitalized following a stroke.
Doctors say Rodrigo Londono, who is known as Timochenko, checked himself into a hospital in the city of Villavicencio Sunday morning after feeling exhaustion and numbness in his arm.
Doctors at the hospital said he remains in intensive care but is recovering well from what they described as a temporary blockage of blood to his brain.
