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Pablo Escobar's hit man, known as "Popeye," dies of cancer

by Associated Press
| February 6, 2020 11:10 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 from cancer, prison authorities said.

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