Bogota. At least four soldiers died on Thursday and five other people were injured in an attack with explosives in northwest Colombia, attributed by authorities to the National Liberation Army guerrilla with which the government is carrying out peace talks.
The soldiers who were hit by the explosives were in a military operation in Anorí, a town in the department of Antioquia, guarding the former guerrillas of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who remain legal, the Army indicated in a statement.
The Army did not detail what type of explosive was used in the attack nor did it report any captures.
Four soldiers and one civilian were injured, the report added, without indicating their medical condition.
Both the Army and the governor of Antioquia, Andrés Rendón, attributed the war action to the ELN guerrilla. Rendón assured that in that area of the country they act in complicity with the Central General Staff, a dissident of the former guerrilla that did not accept the peace agreement signed in 2016 with the State.
“Once again these criminals show that they have no desire for peace,” the governor reproached from the social network X, formerly Twitter.
Rendón indicated that the attack was directed at one of the Old Territorial Training and Reintegration Spaces, set up for former FARC guerrillas who signed the peace agreement eight years ago.
The Army warned that they will file complaints against what they consider a “flagrant violation of human rights and infractions of international humanitarian law.”
The negotiation table between the government and the ELN is going through its deepest crisis, after being suspended indefinitely by the government in September after the guerrilla attacked a military unit with explosives, killing three soldiers and injuring more than 25.
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