This operation was made up of 11 soldiers. Of them there were 4 dead, 3 injured and the remaining 4 were unharmed.
New details were learned about the events that occurred in the rural area of the municipality of CáceresBajo Cauca Antioquia, where four soldiers died. According to General Luis Emilio Cardozo Santamaría, commander of the National Army, in the middle of a surprise insertion Four Army helicopters arrived in this area of the department of Antioquia to carry out an operation against the Clan del Golfo.
General Cardozo, commander of the National Army, indicated that it is a matter of investigation whether the ropes on which the men were descending were cut: “The rope is cut when there is a risk in the aircraft In this case the rope master had already inserted the people and made a verification. There we have the Army inspection to see if there was a rope cut“he assured.
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According to the information The team in charge of the immersion was made up of 11 soldiers.Of them there were 4 dead and 3 injured. The 4 remaining uniformed officers are unharmed, who will be evacuated from the area so that they can truly indicate what happened.
The three injured soldiers are stable and are being treated at the Army clinic in Medellín. One of them required medical attention for x-rays.
Yoinitially the Secretary of Security of AntioquiaGeneral (r) Luis Eduardo Martínez, He indicated that the deaths of the soldiers had been caused by shots fired by members of the Gulf Clan. Therefore, the Government of Antioquia later clarified that “These were not killed, as initially reported, “But they died due to an accident in the middle of an operation against a criminal structure.”
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Likewise, the Army commander referred to the specific fact of whether or not there were shots fired at the soldiers: “At that moment of insertion there were no shots.Later the ground units did have combats and there is a report of four casualties from that criminal structure,” he said.
The authorities are carrying out the respective investigations regarding the incident. While In the area, operations to dismantle the historical camps of the Gulf Clan continue. That they have a dispute over illicit mining.
