Colombia: After an attack with 7 police officers killed, Petro asked that troops not go to conflict zones

After an attack on a patrol car that killed seven police officers, Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked the National Police to remove the institution’s youngest troops from areas where the armed conflict is most acute.  “Those boys and girls can’t be in high-risk places, where you need capacity, a lot more experience and more years,” Petro said. And to that extent I have asked the director general of the Police to take stock and remove from those types of areas, from the traffic to those areas, what today is called police auxiliaries, “added the president. Also, according to the Sputnik agency, he communicated to the authorities the call to move forward with the investigation to find the whereabouts of those responsible. The fact
The attack happened Friday in a rural area located more than two hours’ drive from Neiva, the largest city in the department of Huila. There were 8 troops on the patrol, but one of them survived the attack.” It was an attack on a police patrol, apparently with explosives and they killed them with gunfire,” a spokeswoman for the region’s police told AFP news agency. The ambush occurs because we have a curve of more or less 90 degrees where they had to brake the truck with personnel on the plate. In an area that, although it has not had blood in recent times, since the peace agreements, because it was a cradle of the FARC,” said Petro.The incident was the most serious against the public force since the head of state, the first leftist in the history of Colombia, took office on August 7.

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