Eight dead as police helicopter shot down in Colombia

After a police helicopter was shot in Northern Colombia, at least eight police officers were killed and eight people were injured.

It is believed that the attack near the town of Amalfi in the Antioquia Department on Thursday was believed to be the former left guerrilla organization by a minced meat group of FARC.

According to Governor Andrés Julián Rendón, the Splinter groups of the Farc and Gulf Carteli Crime Union are active in the region.

The security forces had previously seized 1.5 tons of cocaine of the Gulf Cartel.

According to a report in the El Tiempo newspaper, two helicopters left the police officers in the region to destroy the coca fields.

After the reports of an attack on the police officers, they returned, at this point, one of the helicopters was shot and collapsed.

Rendón released a video on the news Platform X on the collision area where a black smoke column can be seen.

Colombia is the world’s largest cocaine -producing country.

Although the security situation has improved after the peace agreement between the government and the FARC signed in 2016, some of the country is still controlled by illegal groups.