BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s air force bombed a  rebel camp yesterday, killing seven leftist guerrillas from  a small insurgent group in the northwest of the Andean nation,  the country’s military said.

Latin America’s No. 4 oil producer has seen a dramatic fall  in violence over the past eight years thanks to a U.S.-backed  offensive that has battered rebels.

Colombia’s military said the air force bombed a camp of  insurgents from the National Liberation Army, or ELN, 217 miles  (350 km) northwest of the Colombian capital, Bogota.

“A precision air operation by the Colombian Air Force  resulted in seven dead terrorists,” it said in a statement.
The ELN has fewer than 2,000 fighters. It has been  decimated by the army and clashes with the nation’s largest  rebel group, the FARC.