During 2019, 1,879 explosive devices were destroyed in the department of Arauca, planted by the Organized Armed Groups, which have increased the use of these illicit methods of war to indiscriminately hit the civilian population and the Security forces.
The National Army carried out several military operations supported by the civic participation network, where it was possible to find and destroy, in the department of Arauca, two devices loaded with 70 kilos of explosives, which were intended to be used to carry out different terrorist operations in this area of the country.
The explosive devices had been planted by the terrorists of the 'Domingo Laín Sáenz' Front of the “Camilo Cien Fuegos” Group of the Eln, at two points of the La Soberanía road in the municipality of Arauquita, that connects its urban area and La Pesquera Municipality Center, where More than 1,200 people travel daily including tourists, students, peasants, the entire community and troops of the National Army.
The military operations were carried out in the hamlets Las Acacias and Las Bancas, where the troops found two containers, one plastic and another metallic, loaded with 20 and 50 kilos of explosive respectively to activate them by radiofrequency and control cable.
Source: National Army
