Four police officers were seriously injured in the municipality of Melgar, Tolima, after a strong shooting was presented in the El Balso neighborhood. The uniformed, according to Caracol news, would belong to the Judicial or Criminal Investigation Section (Sijín) of the police institution. According to the first hypothesis, those affected were carrying out an operation to capture a man pointed out to commit a crime in the morning.
Upon reaching the area, The victims were attacked in shots, in their patrol, without a word. In this tragic incident, a civil woman was also injured and had to be transferred to a health center. From the total balance of injured, three police officers and the affected woman were transferred to the Luis Pasteur de Melgar hospital; The uniformed room, due to the seriousness of his injured, was transferred to a Girardot medical center.
For its part, The mayor of Melgar announced a reward of up to 20 million pesos for those who offer timely and truthful information about the person responsible for the crime before the corresponding authorities. Due to this serious incident, Melgar was deployed personnel from the National Army and the Police to avoid new criminal acts in the area.
“We are waiting for the Police for accurate information. Here there are four injured police officers and security with a lock plan between the police and the army was also deployed. We are offering a reward of 20 million pesos to whom we give us information on those responsible for this Macabre fact. I invite the Melgarenses to give me those bandits who did the damage,” said the local president.
Although it is foreign to the gun plan, this incident occurs shortly after the intense wave of violence presented in different parts of the country, where armed groups have declared war on the police, the army and other state institutions. This situation, according to President Gustavo Petro, has caused the death of 27 uniformed in recent days. The president argues that these harassment come exclusively from the Gulf clan, as a retaliation sign after the death of several leaders of the criminal group.
“We are not going to go back, we will wake the offensive against the clan. They have no escape, or abandon illegal activity and recycle in the process of prosperity of the regions under law and democracy, or the world alliance is built to destroy the Gulf clan. We will reach your allies in Dubai. These are the children of the people, the police and the army, killed by the Gulf clan, “said the president.
Balance in Melgar: Who would be responsible
The Melgar Mayor’s Office spoke from its social networks. In addition to increasing the reward for those who grant information from the authors of the shooting, from 20 to 50 million pesos, the municipality attributed these facts to the criminal band of Alias Junior and the 80s.
“From the Mayor’s Office of Melgar, in coordination with Colonel Fabio Ojeda and our Mayor Rodrigo Hernández, we have taken immediate actions after the shooting that left four police and two injured civilians. We have already identified those responsible: the criminal band of Alias Junior and the 80s.
*For the drafting of this article, information collected by the journalist Edward Porras, of Caracol News was used
Julián Camilo Sandoval
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