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Police officers escort Colombian drug trafficker Daniel Rendon Herrera at a police airport in Bogota yesterday. Rendon, alias Don Mario, was arrested in the northern Colombian city of Apartado in a raid involving 300 police.Pic/AP

One of Colombia's most wanted drugs barons, known as Don Mario, has been captured near his jungle lair in a major strike against the cocaine trade.

Police in the South American state have arrested the trafficker Daniel Rendon who has exported hundreds of tons of cocaine to the Mexican drug cartels and networks feeding the UK.