Soldier Who Killed Che Guevara Dies in Bolivia

Artist Jim Fitzpatrick who has created an Irish postage stamp using the poster of Che Guevara he created in 1968 entitled 'Viva Che!' based on a photograph by Alberto Korda poses for a picture at his studio in Dublin, Ireland October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

The former Bolivian soldier who claimed to have shot dead Marxist revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara died on Thursday aged 80, his relatives said.

Mario Teran Salazar shot dead Argentine-born Guevara on October 9, 1967 in the eastern Santa Cruz province of Bolivia at the height of the Cold War.