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Caribbean-Latin America
Four Colombian soldiers killed in rebel minefield
2009-05-18
A reminder that not all terrorism is Islamicist in origin. Perhaps now that the Tamil Tigers have been beaten we'll read that FARC and ELN are next.
BOGOTA - Four Colombian soldiers were killed and two civilians wounded Saturday when a soldier stepped on a land mine while on patrol near the northeastern town of El Tarra, the army reported. The army blamed Marxist guerrillas with the National Liberation Army (ELN), the countryÂ’s second largest rebel group.

The soldiers belonged to a mobile unit specializing in anti-guerrilla warfare operating in the Norte de Santander department, on the border with Venezuela.

The blast wounded a young woman and her newborn child, a source at the armyÂ’s 30th Brigade told AFP. The civilians were flown to a hospital in an army helicopter, the source said.

On Friday, three police officers were killed and one wounded when guerrillas with another group, the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ambushed a patrol in Cubara, also near the border with Venezuela.
Posted by:Steve White

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