These explosive devices had been planted on a road that is used daily by about 15,000 people.
National Army troops found, in a rural area of the municipality of Arenal, Bolívar, five anti-personnel mines and a launch method, planted a few meters from this sector, this material would belong to the Organized Armed Group, GAO, ELN.
The military operation carried out by soldiers of the Ground Operations Battalion No.112, led to finding the explosive devices in the access road to the municipality; five of these with a tension relief activation system, which according to the first information had been planted in previous days by alleged members of the Alfredo Gómez Quiñonez front.
Once the situation was known, the Explosives and Demolitions Group (EXDE) of the unit activated all safety protocols to carry out the destruction of the explosive charges in controlled conditions.
The Joint Task Force in the same way denounces and rejects the use of this type of Improvised Explosive Devices, which violate Human Rights and violate International Humanitarian Law through the use of unconventional means and methods of warfare, which are expressly prohibited in the different international treaties and protocols.
Source: Press - First Division of the National Army
