Two police officers and the alleged perpetrator were killed on Tuesday (14/12) morning when explosives were detonated on the perimeter of the city’s international airport. Cuckoos, in northern Colombia, informed the authorities.
The first explosion occurred when an unknown person crossed the airport fence and approached the runways, resulting in the loss of his life and the scattering of human remains in the area, according to the police.
“Recognizing in the zone then, the pyrotechnicians located our suitcase,” which also exploded, killing two police officers, he told Media The Giovanni Madariaga, The Commander of the Metropolitan Police in Koukuta.
Flights to the airport were suspended when the first explosion was heard.
“We reject and condemn this terrorist act, which, as always, was aimed at destabilizing the country,” he said. Minister of Defense Diego Molano, who hinted that the attack may have been planned on its territory Venezuela, which, according to him, is used as a base by organizations Colombians guerrillas.
The Minister reminded that in Cuckoos and its surroundings, an area adjacent to Venezuela, δρουν ο National Liberation Army (ELN), as well as dissidents of the former guerrilla organization Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
These organizations “often plan and finance (…) their attacks from its territory Venezuela and seek to commit them unfortunately in its territory ColombiaSaid the minister to Colombian television network.
At least four attacks have been recorded in the area during the year, including one with rifles against a helicopter in which the President Ivan Duque, accompanied by his ministers, at its airport Koukoutas, on June 25th. Neither the head of state nor any of the other passengers were injured.
In mid-June, a car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, wounding 44 soldiers. In August, another explosive attack on a police station in the city injured 14 people, police and civilians. On September 11, five soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a similar operation in Cuckoos, the capital of the province Norte de Santander.
Aid has been developed in the area ever since. About 13,000 soldiers and police are trying to “neutralize and dismantle criminal groups,” he said yesterday. Mr. Molano.
Beyond his guerrillas THE N and their apostates FARC, in the area where large quantities of cocaine are produced, drug-trafficking gangs are also active.
THE Bogota often blames the government of its socialist president Venezuela, του Nicolas Maduro, how it offers shelter, protects and supports illegals colombian armed organizations, something that the Caracas he denies. THE Colombia and the Venezuela severed their diplomatic relations shortly after he took power Ivan Duke, in August 2018; tensions between the two countries with ideologically rival governments continue.
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