At least eight Colombian police murdered in ambush this friday President Gustavo Petro confirmed that it was committed in a rural area of the Huila department in the southwestern part of the country. The attack, whose perpetrators have not been identified, took place on the outskirts of the village of San Luis, which, according to authorities, is part of the rural area of Huila’s capital, Neiva. According to preliminary information, the victims are two petty officers, two patrolmen and four assistants.
“I strongly reject the explosive attack that killed 8 police officers in Huila, San Luis. Solidarity with their families. open sabotage of complete peace. “I asked the authorities to go to the area to take over the investigation,” Petro said on his Twitter account.
Apparently, the police officers were returning to their assigned police station after a day’s work in San Luis corregimiento. activated the minefield to the passage of the truck they were transported to. Men in uniform after the explosion attacked with rifle fireaccording to information collected by local media.
“We are waiting for them to confirm (the data) because we know the displacement of eight comrades, but we need to confirm exactly what the unfortunate number is. The site is not so easily accessible, so there is a plane flying over it. There,” sources confirmed to Efe police.
Police Chief Major General Henry Sanabria Cely said on Twitter that he would travel to Huila “immediately with all institutional capacities to verify and escort our police”. The head of the Colombian Senate, Roy Barreras, “sufferingly” denied the “cowardly” killing of policemen in a message on social networks. “They’re killing them in ambush. Damn drug trafficker is killing humble public servants. Their families and the Colombian family mourn. Those who don’t stop killing only deserve the strongest response from the State,” added Barreras. Convictions of Mauricio Lizcano, Head of the Presidential Administrative Office, were also added, denying the “ordinary murder” and demanding that “the authorities find those responsible”.
This is the first counterattack on public power since Petro came to power in which attacks on public power have been paralyzed through the so-called “gun plot” backed mainly by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang. After its leader, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, nicknamed “Otoniel”, was extradited to the USA, a total of 36 police officers lost their lives as a result of these attacks by the country’s largest criminal gang, which increased the attacks on the security forces, especially on the Atlantic coast and in the northwest of the country.
Source: Informacion
