The Ministry of Defense has put up a reward of US$15,000 for information on the whereabouts of the alleged perpetrator of the launch.
A ten-year-old boy died on Tuesday nightproduct of a grenade launched from a drone in the southwest of ColombiaThis attack using unmanned aircraft is the first to occur in the Latin American country, attributed by the army to FARC dissidents.
The general Federico Mejiacommander of the Cauca Specific Command, declared in a video broadcast on social networks: “Young Dylan was killed as a result of grenade launching from drones “that the troops have been attacking in the Micay Canyon”
The grenade fell on a soccer field in the town of El Plateado, a stronghold of the rebels who broke away from the peace pact that disarmed the bulk of the FARC guerrillas in 2017. The leader known as “alias Giovanni is responsible for this criminal, atrocious and insane activity that occurred yesterday”Mejia added.
They seek to capture those responsible for the attack in Colombia
In addition, the Ministry of Defense put a reward equivalent to 15,000 dollars for information on the whereabouts of Giovanni, who belongs to the structure Carlos Patinoa group marginalized from the peace talks that the government is conducting with other dissident factions of the FARC for violating a truce agreed upon with the Executive.
“We are strengthening the military offensive to protect the population and capture those responsible for the attack”he assured Ivan Velasquezhead of said ministry.
A dissident leader in the area denied that his troops were responsible and accused the army of having launched the device, AFP reported.
Last June, the Army recorded 17 attacks in six weeks, leaving no deaths, in an unprecedented manner in the six decades of internal armed conflict.
Contrary to the sophisticated use of ‘kamikaze drones’ in wars such as the one in Ukraine, where military operations with ‘kamikaze drones’ have been reported, Colombian guerrillas launch explosives from commercial drones. For its part, the State has not yet used combat drones against subversives.
Source: Ambito
