Bogota Columbia.
the less than 14 FARC dissidents died in the troubled Colombian department of Cauca (southwest) in a fight against the army in which a soldier was killed and seven others wounded, military sources said on Saturday.
“This military action has so far left 14 dead in the development of military operations, one brought to justice, the confiscation of a machine gun, three rifles, three small arms and heavy ammunition of this organized armed group,” he explained. The army in a statement.
The commander of that institution, General Eduardo Zapateiro, He said the fighting took place in a rural area in the district of El Plateado (city), which is part of the municipality of Algeria.
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The officer explained on Twitter that the dissidents came from the “Carlos Patiño” dissent and denounced that “in fact people moved the corpses interfering in the urgent acts of competent authorities “.
“The troops, seeking to protect the community, were attacked by the indiscriminate use of explosive devices, which led to the killing of one of our non-commissioned officers, seven wounded and / or defeated soldiers and an affected Air Force aircraft.” said General Zapateiro.
The army commander pointed out that the killed soldier is the third corporal Diego Ricardo Gómez, from the Third Division of the institution.
In March last year, more than 2,000 people left El Plateado due to clashes between illegal armed groups, according to an Ombudsman report.
Drug trafficking groups, FARC dissidents and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas are present in the Cauca, which is fighting for various regions to dedicate them to illicit coca and marijuana crops, as well as illegal mining, in an area that is broker key for movement of illegal goods.
In addition to these clashes, at the end of last month, 43 people were injured by the explosion of a car bomb in front of the City Hall of Corinto, in Cauca, and the authorities accused attack on a FARC dissent called the Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column.