BOGOTA, April 15 Colombian police captured the country's most wanted drug lord, Daniel Rendon Herrera, known as “Don Mario”, the government said on Wednesday.

Rendon Herrera earlier this year offered his gunmen $1,000 for every police officer they murdered, as authorities closed in on his cartel in the northern province of Antioquia, where he was arrested early on Wednesday.

His style recalled that of Colombia's most infamous cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, who waged an all-out war against the state in the 1980s until he was gunned down by security forces on a Medellin rooftop in 1993.

Colombia had offered a $2 million reward to anyone who helped capture Rendon Herrera.

He is the brother of a jailed paramilitary warlord known as “El Aleman”, or “The German”, a nick-name he earned for his reputation of enforcing strict discipline among his troops.—Reuters