I’m sure the Occupiers are holding candlelight vigils tonight.

(Guardian) — Colombia’s top rebel leader has been killed in a hail of gunfire near his remote camp in what the government are calling the “most resounding blow” against the guerrilla army known as the Farc in its near 50-year history.

Guillermo León Sáenz, whose nom de guerre was Alfonso Cano, was killed in combat on Friday evening after an air raid earlier in the day on his camp in a remote region of Cauca province in south-west Colombia.

Although he had shaved off his trademark full beard and moustache, and was found without the thick glasses that he always wore, Cano’s body was identified through fingerprinting. Cano’s general location was reportedly pinpointed several weeks ago through communication intercepts. There was a £2.5m reward on his head.

Some members of Cano’s security detail, and a woman believed to be his partner, were killed in the bombing, according to the defence minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón. Cano and a handful of others hid about 200 metres from the camp, and when ground troops surrounded it, they engaged in combat. Cano was shot in the hip, the groin and the neck.

On inspecting the bombed-out camp, troops found several computers, 39 pen drives, 24 hard disks and cash in Colombian pesos, dollars and euros.

Cano, a communist youth leader in the late 1960s, was considered a hardline Marxist. During ultimately failed peace talks from 1998 to 2002, he was in charge of the Farc’s political wings, the clandestine Communist party, known as PC3, and the Bolivarian Movement.