| On bloody Monday in Colombian forest |
Guerrillas FARC murder 4 military men and 3 police officers |
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| Juan Manuel Santos (right), Minister of Defence, talks with the chief of the armed forces of Colombia, Freddy Padilla. Photo: AP |
César García
Bogota / AP
Four soldiers died and one turned out to be an injured man in an attack of the Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC), and in another attack of the guerrillas three police officers perished and eight remained injured men, he found out on Tuesday, the 24th officially.
The command of the military forces, in a brief bulletin, announced that a lieutenant and four soldiers who were eliminated from the attack, happened on Monday, the 23rd, were found healthy and safe by his partners. A soldier is still missing.
" Four soldiers were murdered" in the attack in the region of the Guaviare, affirmed the Minister of Defence, Juan Manuel Santos, in a press conference in the head office of the military command accompanied by the commander of the military forces, general Freddy Padilla.
For his part, the National Police informed that three agents died and other eight turned out to be hurt by splinters on Monday night when his alertness position was attacked for four hours by guerrillas of the FARC in the area of Santa Rosa, in the department of Bolivar, to the Colombian north.
The attack attributed by the authorities at the head 24 of the FARC, was repelled by the police officers who received support of units of the army and the air force, indicated the police in a bulletin spread to the press in an e-mail.
Early, Santos added that the attack happened to the military men when a unit counterguerrillas, which had killed two rebels of the FARC, was gathering these corpses and Flute was attacked in the Pipe area, in the Guaviare department, to 330 kilometers to the southeast of Bogota.
The military men "they were attacked by fire nourished of grenades of mortar, forcing them to disperse", it expressed the military command in a press release.
The minister said not to not know the origin of versions of press that early they indicated that the dead persons or missing persons were at least from 22 to 25 military men and that the rebels had loaded with teams of communications that the military patrol was taking.
" I do not know where from this information went out... I was firstly surprised" for such reports, it indicated Saints.
In accordance with information of the Defense Department of last January and including the last Guaviare victims, at least 74 military men and 28 police officers have died this year in combats.
Santos supported that the eve attack was a work of the called one 7mo front of the FARC and against which it realized operations the military unit.
" The offensive is at national level and the public force has not lowered the custody only one centimeter, everything opposite the instructions of the president (Alvaro) Uribe are very clear, it is necessary to be to the offensive, every day, at any time", it indicated Saints.
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