Two Soldiers Dead and Seven Injured by Mines in Teorama (North of Santander)
Last night, an engagement between the Army and members of FARC in Sucre traded three soldiers and one guerrilla dead. General Carlos Alberto Ospine, commander of the Armed Forces, stated that near the municipality of Teorama, vigorous operations against FARC rebels were being undertaken and during an attack, the troops entered a field sown with antipersonnel mines. A second lieutenant, identified as Leandro Perez Castro and a soldier Lisimaco Suarez, members of the V Military Brigade were killed instantly, while seven soldiers were injured, three of them gravely.
Three Soldiers and One Guerrilla Dead in Sucre
The engagement took place last night, when troops tried to neutralize an illegal roadblock on the highway that connects Ovejas with Sincelejo. The following was related by Colonel Rafael Colon, commander of the First Brigade of Marine Infantry: "A group of FARC Guerrillas were attempting to maintain a presence on the highway [a roadblock; Spanish like Arabic often tries to talk around the subject] and were confronted by members of the infantry battalion. During this fight, three of our men were murdered and others were injured, fortunately none seriously" stated the official in a radio transmission. According to Colon, the soldiers recovered a rebel corpse that also had perished in combat. "We are continuing with operations in this zone, with the goal of neutralizing the actions of the terrorists that are seeking to operate on the margins of the law," added the military chief.