At the site, troops from the 27th Brigade of the National Army, together with the Colombian Navy and with the support of the Police and the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office, arrived at a place where, terrorists of the structure calling itself the Second Marquetalia Border Command of the FARC Dissidents, They hid 197 explosive devices prepared and prepared to be launched from the air through the use of drones..
This important operational result comes after significant security work deployed by the Military Forces in this area, with the aim of countering the criminal intentions of organized armed groups, as well as to continue weakening the logistical and criminal networks of organizations that persist in their intentions to attack the lives of the civilian population and the Public Force, as well as against the infrastructure of the State.
At the site, the troops of the Infantry Battalion No. 25 of the National Army and the Marine Infantry River Battalion No. 30 of the Colombian Navy, Homemade explosive devices were found underground and hidden in bins. In addition, they located a 60 mm grenade, also homemade, as well as different materials and spare parts for the production and adaptation of that type of explosives.
This elements They have an internal system that is initiated by impact. The devices when hitting a surface are activated and detonated. According to the anti-explosive technicians who carried out the verification, each device has pentolite (high-power explosives), a multiplier, a detonating cord of 10 grams per linear meter, a charging handle to be able to attach each device to the drone, as well as pellets. and shrapnel to increase its destructive power. In the stabilizer tail, the criminals would have adapted the percussion activation system
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