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Drug lord Pablo Escobar burned more than £1million in one night - to cook and keep his daughter warm.

The Colombian cocaine baron lit a bonfire using wads of US dollars at a mountain hideout while he was on the run, his son claimed.

Sebastian Marroquin, who changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, told Colombian magazine his father thought the girl had hypothermia.

Escobar, head of the Medellin cartel, had an estimated £18billion fortune in 1989. He was shot dead in 1993 as he tried to flee police.