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Soldiers Provide Humanitarian Attention to Guerrilla Injured in Combat
September 23, 2008
Bogotá. Amidst intense combat leaving two guerrillas and one soldier dead, members of the Army’s Sixth Brigade rescued and evacuated a young subversive individual that was seriously injured.
The 12-year-old young man, forced to join the terrorist structures of FARC’s 21st squad, only a month ago, was taken by military personnel to Hospital ‘Federico Lleras’ in Ibagué, where he is recovering satisfactorily.
Sixth Brigade members in coordination with the Colombian Welfare Institute (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar) have been trying to locate family members of the youngster so that they could be transported to Tolima for the reunion with their ‘young one’; victim of recruitment by terrorists from FARC.
At the site where the events took place, Army members found the bodies of two guerrillas in possession of assault rifles, four fragmentation grenades, four homemade assault equipment devices, eight ammunition clips, 100 m of detonating cord, an anti-personnel mine and 6 kg of explosives.
The skirmish, lasting several minutes, where one soldier was murdered by the name of Carlos Salguero, took place at a farm called El Recreo, in the hamlet of San Rafael, suburban area near the city of Ibagué.
The terrorist structure was intercepted by troops from Infantry Battalion 16 ‘Patriotas’, from the Sixth Brigade,
Sixth Brigade members in coordination with the Colombian Welfare Institute (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar) have been trying to locate family members of the youngster so that they could be transported to Tolima for the reunion with their ‘young one’; victim of recruitment by terrorists from FARC.
At the site where the events took place, Army members found the bodies of two guerrillas in possession of assault rifles, four fragmentation grenades, four homemade assault equipment devices, eight ammunition clips, 100 m of detonating cord, an anti-personnel mine and 6 kg of explosives.
The skirmish, lasting several minutes, where one soldier was murdered by the name of Carlos Salguero, took place at a farm called El Recreo, in the hamlet of San Rafael, suburban area near the city of Ibagué.
The terrorist structure was intercepted by troops from Infantry Battalion 16 ‘Patriotas’, from the Sixth Brigade,
Newsagency, Tuesday
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