Soldiers doused with gas, set on fire during mission to destroy cocaine lab
Two Colombian soldiers were seriously injured after being soaked with gasoline and set on fire when an indifferent operation was attacked in the southeast ColombiaThe army said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred during an operation. cocaine Laboratory in the rural area of the North Putumayo section that limits Ecuador.
A rebellion took place on Wednesday that a group of civilians attacked uniform officers with fire to prevent the procedure of a group of civilian groups.
A civil servant and a soldier were subjected to violent burns and received treatment in a hospital.
Such attacks on the security forces of civilians in the distant, guerrilla -controlled regions have increased in Colombia.
The Latin American country is struggling with the worst security crisis in the decade of drug trafficking, extortion and illegal mining.
The Army, the government and the FARC guerrilla group rejected the 2016 peace agreement, the attack and “forcing the civilian population in the region, an opposition fraction against the opposition Frontera’ya sued.
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez Shipment on social media “Neither the peasants nor the communities claiming their rights.”
“Criminals and Narcos trying to kill our soldiers.”
Sanchez published a video to one of the victims transplanted by helicopter to get medical care.
The Border Command group, which operates in both Colombia and Ecuador, is currently negotiating with the government of the leftist President Gustavo Petro, but with little progress.
Colombian prosecutors arrested Andres Rojas, the leader of the group, also known as Arana during a meeting with government representatives in February.
He is faced with charges of the latest cocaine posts to the United States and is sought.
Ecuador officials blamed the group for killing 11 soldiers in an attack during an operation against illegal mining in May.
In July, Military Dog in Colombia He was wounded after detecting a bomb erected by guerrilla fighters exploded during a military operation. The Colombian army accused the explosion in Eln, the approximately 6,000 warrior groups fighting the Colombian government. Peace talks with the US group set As a foreign terrorist organization – it was suspended in January. Eln was accused For dozens of deaths in raids close to the Venezuela border.
The dog’s injury is a The bomb was accepted with a donkey He exploded in the same area, killed a soldier and injured two people.
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