Colombian hitmen wanted for the cold-blooded murder of at least 200 people were arrested by armed police in Spain today.
Sharpshooter cops swooped on danger men Henry Marin, alias "The Chicken", and Mauricio Sepulveda, known as "Husky", in separate hideouts in the eastern city of Valencia.
Police commanders later described the pair as the most dangerous Colombians ever arrested in Spain, where they fled after unleashing a reign of terror ordered by drug godfathers.
Marin, 36, was arrested in the Mediterranean port city while his alleged accomplice Sepulveda, 44, was captured at nearby La Eliana.
Both men are alleged to have fled to Spain after the break-up of the so-called Self Defence Units of Colombia - a vicious gang of hitmen working for cocaine cartels.
They were being sought over more than 200 murders, kidnappings and torture in Colombia.
Spanish authorities acted amid concerns they had exported their bloody trade to Europe following a wave of contract killings, extortion, kidnapping and drug crime.
Their alleged victims include Colombian footballer, Albeiro Usuriago Lopez, known as the Cock Pigeon, who was gunned down in February 2004.
World Cup qualifier star Lopez helped his national side qualify for the Italia 90 tournament and played club football in Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela.
But he was suspended for two years by the Argentine Football Association for testing positive for cocaine before being gunned down in a nightclub in the Colombian city of Santiago de Cali.
Other notorious hits included the killings of two intelligence agents and a woman whose body was left in a suitcase outside a Colombian zoo.
No shots were fired in the raids in which police surrounded the pair, who have both been handed over to the National Criminal Court in Madrid to await extradition.
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