Colombian Soldier Dies in Rebel Ambush
Source: Latinamericanherald
BOGOTA
– One soldiers was killed and four others wounded in an attack by
leftist FARC guerrillas in a rural area near the south-central city of
Neiva, the Colombian military said Wednesday.
The rebels detonated explosives as the patrol passed in a truck, the commander of the army’s 9th Brigade, Gen. Henry William Torres, said from his headquarters in Neiva, capital of Huila province.
One private died and three other privates and an officer were injured in the blast, the general said in a statement.
Troops managed to defuse two other explosive devices left the scene, Torres said, blaming the attack on the 66th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The soldiers on patrol were “carrying out the constitutional mission to protect the civilian population from the threat represented by the FARC,” the general said.
Colombian army, air force and police units killed seven FARC guerrillas and captured five others in a rural area of the eastern province of Meta, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said Tuesday.
He described the operation as a “decisive and resounding blow” against the 42nd Front of the FARC, the Andean nation’s largest rebel group.
The FARC, now thought to number around 7,000 fighters, has battled a succession of Colombian governments since the mid-1960s.
BOGOTA
– One soldiers was killed and four others wounded in an attack by
leftist FARC guerrillas in a rural area near the south-central city of
Neiva, the Colombian military said Wednesday.The rebels detonated explosives as the patrol passed in a truck, the commander of the army’s 9th Brigade, Gen. Henry William Torres, said from his headquarters in Neiva, capital of Huila province.
One private died and three other privates and an officer were injured in the blast, the general said in a statement.
Troops managed to defuse two other explosive devices left the scene, Torres said, blaming the attack on the 66th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The soldiers on patrol were “carrying out the constitutional mission to protect the civilian population from the threat represented by the FARC,” the general said.
Colombian army, air force and police units killed seven FARC guerrillas and captured five others in a rural area of the eastern province of Meta, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said Tuesday.
He described the operation as a “decisive and resounding blow” against the 42nd Front of the FARC, the Andean nation’s largest rebel group.
The FARC, now thought to number around 7,000 fighters, has battled a succession of Colombian governments since the mid-1960s.
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