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At least six Colombian police officers have been killed and seven others injured in an attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), regional police sources say.
The attack was carried out on Monday afternoon in Padilla town in the Cauca state where armed rebels killed six motorcycle police officers, said country’s police director Gen. Jose Roberto Leon.
Those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, he added.
Five soldiers have been killed by FARC rebels in the south of Colombia, a regional army commander said Saturday.
According to the commander of the 27th Jungle Brigade, the five men were killed and three more were injured by a roadside bomb detonated by guerrillas.
A joint US-Israeli attack on the Islamic republic could trigger a third world war, a general from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, has claimed, cited by ‘Digarban’ website.
“World War III could break out if the United States and Israeli forces decided to attack Iran,” said general Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commandar of the Revolutionary Guards’ airforce, cite by Digarban.
“Iran would be ready to launch strikes on US bases in the Gulf and US allies in the region in the event of an attack by the US together with its allies,” Hajizadeh said.
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group proposed a cease-fire Thursday while it holds peace talks with the government beginning in Norway next month. It also named three negotiators, including a high-ranking guerrilla now imprisoned in the United States.
The rebels said first on their agenda will be a possible truce in the half-century of fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
A Shining Path guerrilla commander was killed in a firefight with the army and police in the jungles of Peru’s Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers, or VRAE, region, President Ollanta Humala said Wednesday.
“We have been able to confirm the death of the so-called Comrade Williams, the number four in the party organization of (Shining) Path in the VRAE, he was the number two military commander,” Humala told Radio Programas del Peru, or RPP.