The number of people, including military and civilians, who have been affected so far this year after falling into minefields has risen to seven. The most recent case is that of two professional soldiers assigned to the Hercules Task Force, who were injured when they stepped on an anti-personnel mine.
in events that occurred in the rural area of the municipality of Barbacoas, in the Telembi region, in Nariño.
The Secretary of Government of the department of Nariño, Benildo Estupiñán, told Blu radio that he hopes that this June 24, when the official dialogue table with the Second Marquetalia is installed, one of the first points to be discussed be to agree on a bilateral ceasefire and also agree on humanitarian demining.
The two soldiers, whose identity is kept confidential, They were transferred to Cali, where they receive medical attention.
A first official report on the state of health of the two soldiers says that one of them lost his left leg, while the other evolves satisfactorily.
The events occurred in the Guayabal village, where the platoon assigned to the Hércules Brigade, They were preparing to carry out registration and control operations in the Barbacoa area, a rural area, where, according to some inhabitants of that area, ELNELN guerrillas are operating against community members from the South and also the dissidents of the Second Marquetalia.
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