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Colombia: 11 missing, six injured in the fall of a military helicopter

2020-07-22T16:34:18.208Z


Eleven soldiers disappeared and six others were injured when their helicopter fell in southeast Colombia during an operation against dissident Farc guerrillas, who rejected the peace agreement, the army said. Tuesday July 21. Read also: Colombia: where is the peace process with the Farc? On board this Black Hawk helicopter were 17 soldiers, "of whom six were wounded and 11 others disappeared ", ...


Eleven soldiers disappeared and six others were injured when their helicopter fell in southeast Colombia during an operation against dissident Farc guerrillas, who rejected the peace agreement, the army said. Tuesday July 21.

Read also: Colombia: where is the peace process with the Farc?

On board this Black Hawk helicopter were 17 soldiers, "of whom six were wounded and 11 others disappeared ", according to a statement from the staff, which did not specify whether the aircraft had been shot down or s 'it was an accident. The helicopter, missing a little earlier, was found in an arm of the Inirida, a river in the Guaviare department, where dissidents of the former guerrilla forces of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) are operating who refused. to surrender following the 2016 peace agreement.

According to the army, the aircraft was participating in an operation against these rebels in this region where there are also narco-plantations. " The commission of the Air Attack Division of the national army is on the scene to initiate the necessary investigations to determine the circumstances in which the facts occurred ," the statement said.

Source: lefigaro

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