US EditionEcuador declares national mourning for 11 troops killed by guerrillas
- The president of Ecuador announced a period of national mourning lasting three days beginning Saturday following the fatal ambush of 11 soldiers near the border with Colombia.
- The attack took place during a mission targeting unlawful extraction activities in the Amazon region of Ecuador, amid increasing violence connected to cocaine trafficking from Colombia through Ecuadoran ports.
- The ambush involved explosives, grenades, and firearms and was claimed by the Comandos de la Frontera, a criminal FARC splinter group rejecting the 2016 peace deal and engaged in drug trafficking and other crimes.
- Ecuador’s military reported that 11 soldiers and one militant were killed, with one soldier injured, during the attack. In response, President Daniel Noboa pledged to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
- The incident underscores the regional security challenges from armed groups and trafficking networks, prompting ongoing peace talks and increased enforcement under Noboa’s tough-on-crime policies.
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Santa Maria TimesEcuador declares mourning for the deaths of 11 soldiers allegedly killed by ex-FARC dissidents.
QUITO (AP) — Ecuador declared three days of national mourning Saturday for the deaths of 11 soldiers ambushed with explosives in an attack the Andean country's military blames on dissidents of the now-defunct Ecuadorian Armed Forces.
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Ecuador declares national mourning for 11 troops killed by guerrillas
Ecuador's president declared three days of national mourning starting Saturday over the deaths of 11 soldiers who the army said were killed by dissident FARC guerrillas in an ambush near the Colombian border.
Eleven Ecuadorian soldiers killed in an ambush of a criminal group near the Colombian border
A squadron of 80 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ecuador suffered this Friday morning an ambush perpetrated by the criminal group Comandos de Frontera. The unit carried out an operation against illegal mining in the sector of Alto Punino, in a border area with Colombia in the north of the country, between the Amazonian provinces of Napo and Orellana. The Attorney General’s Office confirmed at night that at least 11 soldiers were killed by this g…
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