On the night of this Wednesday, September 10, a series of detonations were reported in the La Asomadera sector, near the Vía Las Palmas, in the city of Medellín. As reported hours later, The explosions affected one of the high voltage energy towers of the EPM public services company.
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Through a statement to public opinion, EPM reported that the incident is being investigated by the competent authorities and that The company’s equipment is in place to verify the damage caused to the structure.
“The EPM team made a presence in the area immediately to verify the impacted infrastructure”the entity said.
The company also indicated that although there are no interruptions in the service because of this fact, the repair work can only be initiated Once it is confirmed that there are no more explosives in the area and that the entry of their crews is safe.
Security Council
After receiving the attack, the governor of Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendón, announced that this Thursday, September 11 Extraordinary security advice will be carried out.
The local president indicated that the attack with explosives would be a retaliation of the Dissidencies of the FARC after a recent police operation in the municipality of Campment, Antioquia. He also pointed out that in this operation four dissidents were killed, Among them Alias Guillermino, who would have participated in the murder of 13 uniformed in Amalfi on August 21.
Along that same lines, the mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, said the authorities verified the presence of an allusive flag to the 36th front of the FARC in the place where the incident occurred. “This terrorist act is in response to the coup and dejection that today the National Police gave to this structure in camp (Antioquia)”, He wrote through his X account.
In a new publication, Gutiérrez indicated that a reward of up to $ 200 million will be offered for those who deliver information to locate the material and intellectual responsible for the attack. “We are going to continue price terrorists. They fall because they fall,” He added.
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