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Some 1,500 peasants were forced by the FARC to leave their homes near the northern Antioquian town of Ituango, according to local government.
According to the mayor, Ituango asked for help from the Red Cross, the Antioquian governor and presidential aid agency Accion Social, to house and feed the wave of displaced that arrived in the town 60 miles north of Medellin.
City authorities improvized a shelter in a school building.
In June last year, Ituango received hundreds of displaced people following fighting between the army and the FARC’s 18th Front, which is active in the region, where a lot of coca is grown.
