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Three Colombian soldiers were killed and at least another four wounded in southwest Colombia Wednesday during two separate confrontations with the leftist guerrilla group FARC.
The first attack occurred in the rural area of Florencia, Caqueta when alleged members of the Teofilo Forero Mobile Column of the FARC ambushed a patrol from the mountains and killed two soldiers.
Two soldiers have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a military base in Peru’s coca growing Apurimac and Ene river valleys, or VRAE, daily La Republica reported.
The attack occurred against the Mantario Union military base by remnants of the Shining Path insurgency. The group used long range weapons to fire on the base and then fled into the jungle, the report said.
FARC guerrillas attacked a local market in southwest Colombia Saturday killing at least three people and injuring 70 others in the southwestern town of Toribio, its mayor told French press agency AFP.
“It was a brutal attack by the FARC against the people of Toribio,” mayor Carlso Banguero said. “It appears they used a car bomb loaded with 220 pounds (100 kilos) of explosives and set it off in the center of town at the market,” he added.
A FARC roadside blitz in the north of Antioquia killed one police major, and wounded five on Wednesday. Police and military officials responded by shutting down the major roadway that connects the city of Medellin with the Caribbean coast.
The ambush occurred near the town of Yarumal, on the road that connects Medellin to the northern municipality of Caucasia and the Caribbean Coast.
The number of injured in Colombia’s southern Cauca province from a car bomb explosion rose to 17 on Sunday, police said.
Authorities had earlier said that nine people, including two policemen, were injured in the bomb attack that hit the provincial capital of Popayan at midnight Saturday.
Eight more people, including two minors, have been sent to hospitals for medical treatment for severe injuries incurred in the terrorist attack by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group, police said.