An armed clash between a department of the Colombian army and guerrillas belonging to the dissidence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) yesterday had a death toll of 15 in the department of Cauca.
The newspaper El Tiempo in Bogotà writes this.
The budget was provided during a meeting with the media by the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, who specified that in the accident a soldier of the third division of the army and 14 guerrillas of the 'Frente Carlos Patiño' lost their lives. .
In addition, he added, seven other soldiers sustained injuries of varying degrees.
Molano then indicated that after the car bomb that the Farc dissidents planted in Corinth, the army leaders decided to strengthen operations against the 'Carlos Patiño Front' in Cauca.
Finally, at the end of March, there were clashes between the guerrilla and security forces in El Plateado, and according to the Colombian Ombudsman (Defender of the People), at least 2,000 people were forced to leave the area to take refuge in the municipality of Algeria .