Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he had suspended peace talks with National Liberation Army rebels in response to what he said were guerrilla attacks earlier Wednesday.

"I have talked with the head of the government delegation in Quito to tell him to return immediately to assess the future of the process," Santos said in a televised address.

Peace talks with Colombia's last rebel group were to resume in the capital of neighboring Ecuador on Wednesday, after a 101-day ceasefire between the government and the ELN rebels expired at midnight.

Source: AFP