The ELN attacked the Army Battalion in Fortul and the Caño Limón-Coveñas Pipeline in Arauquita. ¿
Soldiers from the Energy and Road Battalion No. 14 in Fortul, Arauca, evaluate the structural damage caused by the attack with tattoos carried out by the ELN guerrilla.
Initially and apparently ELN guerrilla men attacked the Energy and Road Battalion No. 14 in Fortul with tattoosone of the PDET municipalities in the department of Arauca, where the authorities remain on alert in the face of these new violent events.
Preliminary information indicates that several tatuco-type devices were thrown and that they would have fallen inside the military canton, in that municipality. Araucanian.
It was verified that the violent event did not leave soldiers or people injured, apparently only possible damage to the structures of the Fortul battalion.
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Likewise, and in a second case, in the Las Acacias village in the rural area of the municipality of Arauquita, also in Arauca, another terrorist attack was recorded against a section of the Caño Limón – Coveñas Pipeline that caused loss of containment, which forced the company Cenit, a subsidiary of the Ecopetrol Group, to activate the Emergency and Contingency Plan (PEC). to attend to the emergency.
It was the Arauquita Municipal Disaster Risk Management Council that coordinated preventive actions such as the activation of barriers to protect the municipality’s intake from a possible environmental impact.
It was also confirmed that the National Army that operates in the area, secured the area so that experts could attend to the emergency and advance the repair work.
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“The troops are already in the sector,” said the Arauca authorities who remain on alert in the face of these new events apparently at the hands of the armed groups.
These attacks occurred in the midst of the good news that had been given to the families that, after a week of kidnapping, this Monday, November 17, the ELN guerrilla released five soldiers that they were holding in the hands of the Eastern War Front in the municipality of Tame, Arauca.
Source: Integrated Information System
