During the last few hours there have been simultaneous attacks against the security forces in the departments of the Cesar, Norte de Santander, Cauca, Valle del Cauca and Antioquia, leaving one soldier dead and 25 more wounded, including a uniformed police officer.
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In the early hours of this Thursday, the Chiriguaná military base in Cesar was attacked with explosive devices, leaving the death of a soldier, identified as Faider Martínez Gómez, while another was injured as a result of the shrapnel.
According to preliminary information, this action would have been perpetrated by the ELN.
In addition, another attack was recorded in the military base of the Infantry Battalion located on the road that leads to the municipality of Aguachica, Cesar.
According to the first information, “At approximately 1:17 am this Thursday, four detonations were heard at the base, apparently from a grenade attack. So far, two soldiers have serious injuries, so they had to be sent to the Aguachica Hospital, and 18 more with minor injuries are treated within the same military unit by health personnel.
There was also a grenade attack on the Police substation in the Corregimiento of El Burro (César), fortunately there were no injured soldiers there.
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North of Santander
In the early morning hours, two military bases in Norte de Santander were attacked with explosives.
In the Santander battalion located in Ocaña, the armed groups launched several grenades and cylinder bombs, where 3 soldiers were injured that They were transferred to the Emiro Quintero Cañizares hospital in the same municipality.
Cauca’s Valley
In the center of Valle del Cauca, attacks on the Police continued in recent hours. In Tuluá, there was a grenade attack against the CAI of the Aguaclara corregimiento, located in the north of the city.
The explosive was thrown from a truck and fortunately no one was injured. nor affectations to the infrastructure taking into account that the CAI has protection fences.
While this was happening, in Bugalagrande there was an attack with a firearm against a police motorized patrol, where uAn agent was injured in the knee and is receiving medical attention.
The patrol responded to a call from the community about the suspicious presence of two individuals on a motorcycle, who upon seeing the uniformed men received them with gunshots.
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Cauca
Farc dissidents of the “Dagoberto Ramos Ortiz” structure, They harassed the police station in the municipality of Corinto in the north of the department of Cauca.
The attack was recorded in the night hours of this Wednesday and lasted several minutes without fortunately registering injuries or material damage.
The uniformed police officers who were at the scene reacted and fired in order to cause the dissidents to withdraw.
It is believed that the attack would be a retaliation after the death of alias “Jhonier”, the top leader of the dissidence in the south-west of the country who was killed by the army in the municipality of Toribío.
Antioch
unknown They threw a grenade at the Remedios Police Station, Northeast Antioquia, in the early hours of this Thursday. The explosion caused damage to the official vehicle and the façade of the institution’s station, which is near the Church and the main park.
The councilman of Remedios, Juan Camilo Saldarriaga, confirmed that, For now, there are no people injured by this attack.
It is expected that in the next few hours a security council will be convened in Remedios to analyze the public order situation. In fact, the Northeast is one of the three regions with increases in homicides this year.
