At least six alleged guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) died in the Colombian department of arauca in combats with Army troops, who do not report any news in their ranks.
“The Military Forces have been holding confrontations with the National Liberation Army (ELN),” said the Defense Minister, Ivan Velasquez, to the media, in an operation that is taking place on the verge of the next July 6 start the enlistment phase of the national bilateral ceasefire with the ELN, which will officially enter into force on August 3.
The clashes took place in a rural area between Arauquita and Puerto Jordán after troops from the Army’s Eighteenth Brigade located a camp of the Eastern War Front of the ELN, which operates in Arauca, Boyacá and Casanare, and in Apure (Venezuela).
At the moment, when the operations framed in the Army’s Plan Ayacucho are still being carried out, there are “six members of that organization dead: four men, two women,” the minister explained, adding that “war material” has also been seized. .
A group of specialists from the Judicial Police (Dijin), from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI, from the Prosecutor’s Office) will travel to the place, who will remove the corpses, which will then be taken to a headquarters of the National Institute of Legal Medicine. and Forensic Sciences.
