A new attack with a motorcycle bomb against an Army battalion in the department of Meta, in central Colombia, left two dead on Wednesday – a civilian and a soldier – and five more people injured, according to the authorities.
The attack was perpetrated against the Battalion of Infantry N.21 Battle Pantano de Vargas, located in the municipality of Granada, detailed the Army.
The commander of the Army’s Fourth Division, General Antonio Beltrán Díaz, blamed the attack on a FARC dissident group known as “Jorge Briceño”, who intended to “bring a motorcycle with food to some of the units that are quartered.”
“The protocol acts covered by one of our soldiers heroically prevents this vehicle from entering the facilities,” added the officer, who lamented the death of the uniformed officer.
In the region where the attack was committed, there is a presence of criminal gangs that emerged from the demobilization of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and FARC dissidents that, according to the Ombudsman’s Office, are fighting for territorial control of that area located in the Eastern plains.
The violence has deepened in almost all of Colombia in recent months, but the situation is particularly delicate in the departments of Cauca (southwest) and Arauca (east), and in the Catatumbo regions, bordering Venezuela; Bajo Cauca Antioquia (northwest) and South Pacific.
Just last Sunday, the explosion of a car bomb near the police station in the Colombian town of Padilla, in Cauca, left three injured.
On January 20, another car bomb exploded in a central area of Saravena, in the department of Arauca, bordering Venezuela, leaving one dead and five injured. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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