A professional soldier of his army Colombia killed by a sniper He is in the midst of armed harassment against troops conducting registration and control work in a rural area of the Colombian town of San Calixto, military sources reported this Thursday.
3 Rapid Deployment Force, a unit of the Army’s Second Division, said in a statement that the soldiers were harassed by an alleged National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla in the hamlet of La Taya. is part of San Calixto (Norte de Santander). The product of “this criminal act”, professional soldier Jhony Alexander Salazar, has died.He was injured in the area where he died and was taken to the hospital. This murder follows the murder of a police officer who was shot by a sniper during events in a rural area of Sardinata municipality.
Sardinata and San Calixto are part of the Catatumbo region, which covers an area of 10,089 square kilometers, mostly forest, in Norte de Santander. Other municipalities that make up Catatumbo are Ábrego, El Tarra, Tibú, El Carmen, Convención, Teorama, Hacarí and La Playa. He fights for the stronghold of the ELN and FARC opponents, as well as the People’s Liberation Army (EPL) and other gangs, in one of the most coca-producing areas in the country. corridors for drug trafficking and illegal products.