Two Venezuelan helicopters bearing the logos of the Red Cross International Committee departed Thursday from the town of San José del Guaviare (southeast Colombia) to a place in the Colombian forest where they are to pick two hostages the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) are to release, AFP reported.

The helicopters arrived in San José del Guaviare, earlier on Thursday to refuel and depart for an unknown place in the forest where former vice-presidential candidate Clara Rojas and former lawmaker Consuelo González de Perdomo would be freed.