Explosive ordnance attack on Norte de Santander military base leaves one soldier dead and several wounded

One soldier died and another soldier was wounded this Sunday in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, bordering Venezuela, in an explosive attack on troops carrying out search and control tasks, the Army reported. The Commando of the Thirtieth Brigade detailed -in a statement- that the military were at the roadblock between Cúcuta, the departmental capital, and Puerto Santander, "when they were attacked with the launch of an explosive …

One soldier died and another soldier was wounded this Sunday in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, bordering Venezuela, in an explosive attack on troops carrying out search and control tasks, the Army reported. The Commando of the Thirtieth Brigade detailed -in a statement- that the military were at the roadblock between Cúcuta, the departmental capital, and Puerto Santander, "when they were attacked with the launch of an explosive …

The incident occurred while units of the National Army were guarding a checkpoint.

A soldier of the National Army lost his life and a non-commissioned officer was injured following an explosive attack against troops carrying out control work on the Cúcuta-Puerto Santander road in the department of Norte de Santander. According to the Command of the Thirty-Sixth Brigade, the incident occurred on the morning of this Sunday, March 30, when members of the Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 5 General Hermogenes Maza were carrying out tac…

The explosives belonged to the ‘Jorge Suárez Briceño’ block, one of the dissidences of the Farc. The Colombian Navy found 600 anti-personnel mines in a wooded area of the department of Meta, in the center of the country, that allegedly dissidences of the FARC had been stored to use them against the civilian population and the Army, military sources reported. Navy Infantry Brigade Commander No. 3, Colonel Faiver Osorio Peña, said that the artifac…