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Colombian violence: 17 police, military officers, dead in two days
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 03 - 09 - 2010

The death toll mounted in attacks on Colombia
police and military, with at least 17 officers declared dead, 12
injured and one still missing over two days.
The attacks were blamed on leftist rebels, dpa reported.
Colombian authorities updated late Thursday the number of
casualties in attacks carried out Wednesday and Thursday in the
provinces of Caqueta, Norte de Santander and Narino.
General Santiago Parra, commander of the Rural Security
Unit of police, said a rebel ambush late Wednesday claimed the lives
of 14 police officers in the municipality of El Doncello, in the
southern Colombian province of Caqueta. He blamed the ambush on the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"The officers fell on a minefield and were then shot, and
petrol was poured over them," Parra told reporters. The bodies were
then set on fire, demanding forensic help in identifying them.
Six police officers were injured in the attack.
Parra said access to the area was slowed down by the need to
defuse explosive devices planted by the rebels.
Three soldiers were killed Thursday in two clashes with alleged
members of FARC in provinces at opposite ends of the country: in
Norte de Santander, on the border with Venezuela, and Narino, on the
Ecuadorian border.
Two were killed in Norte de Santander, outside of Salazar de las
Palmas, in a shootout after soldiers on patrol were attacked, the
radio network Caracol reported. One soldier is missing from that
attack.
The third soldier was killed in Ricaurte, Narino, and six were
injured an an ambush of a patrol vehicle as it travelled through the
town. One soldier was in critical condition after suffering the loss
of both legs in a bomb blast.
The attacks were the first major incidents since conservative
former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated as
Colombian president last month.
During the eight-year presidency of Santos' mentor and predecessor
Alvaro Uribe, FARC had been forced into a certain retreat in the
four-decade-old conflict that intertwines politics and the drug
trade.


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