These deadly traps would be used by members of the GAO-r-33, whose main criminal ringleader is the individual known as Jhon Mechas.
Thanks to military intelligence, troops of the Vulcano Task Force in operations in the northeast of the department of Norte de Santander, found four grenades of improvised manufacture of 81 mm, hidden near the civilians.
The clandestine hiding place was found in the sector known as La Invasión, Playa Rica village, Tibu municipality, where soldiers of the Combat Engineer Battalion No.30, were conducting the mission.
The explosive devices had been manufactured in an improvised way wrapped in white sacks, so as not to be detected by the soldiers who were conducting in-depth searches. It should be noted that these devices were being equipped with shrapnel and sharps to cause greater loss to our men and the peasants who live in the sector.
The use of this type of weapons is criminalized in the Colombian Criminal Code, article 142 use of illicit means and methods of warfare. It in the same way it violates the third article common to the four Geneva Conventions.
Source: Press - Vulcano Task Force
