“Colombia is in mourning. We reject any attack against life because it is an attack against those who protect it: the police. It is an aggression against their families, children, friends and neighbors. There will be no impunity for those who confront a police officer“, added the institution through a message on its social networks.
The attack, whose perpetrators have not been identified, took place on the outskirts of San Luis, a village that is part of the rural area of Neiva, the capital of Huila, according to the authorities.
Apparently, the policemen were going back to the police station to which they were attached after a day of work in the San Luis township when a minefield was activated as the truck in which they were traveling passed.
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, together with the Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez, the Minister of the Interior, Alfonso Prada, and the Director General of the Police, Henry Armando Sanabria Cely, traveled to Neiva on Friday night to set up a security post. unified command.
This is the first attack against the public force since Petro came to power, when the offensives against the public force were paralyzed through the so-called “gun plan” promoted mainly by the criminal gang Clan del Golfo.
