“Unfortunately, the murder of six of our soldiers is confirmed” and five wounded who “were evacuated by air” to a hospital, detailed the Army.
“Troops on the ground continue to search for one of our soldiers,” the force added.
In dialogue with Blu Radio, General Juvenal Díaz blamed the Clan del Golfo, the most powerful drug gang in Colombia, for the attack.
During a military operation, members of that organization installed “an improvised explosive device” and detonated it “as one of the vehicles” passed by the army, he explained.
According to the official, that region serves as a corridor to transport cocaine from the Colombian Pacific to Panama.
Near that place, the head of the Clan del Golfo was captured in October 2021, Dairo Antonio Usugaaliases “Othniel“. After the arrest, his former men in command sustain constant confrontations with the public forces.
Colombia has already approved the extradition of the once most wanted narco in the country to USAwhere justice requires it for drug trafficking.
Before the fall of its capo, the Clan del Golfo exported some 300 of the 1,010 tons of cocaine that leave Colombia annually, the world’s largest producer of this narcotic, according to authorities.
Source: Ambito
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