Implementing the manual demining technique, soldiers of the Humanitarian Demining Engineers Battalion No. 1, cleared 51,367 square meters of the rural area of the municipalities of Puerto Rico, La Montañita and Florencia, in the department of Caquetá.
The mine clearance specialists who decontaminated six areas from suspicion of explosive devices, benefited 200 families of the department of Caqueta.
Specifically in the municipality of Puerto Rico, the humanitarian demining units worked in the villages of Altamira, Las Iglesias and Monte Bello, where they destroyed nine antipersonnel mines and cleared 19,575 square meters.
In that municipality, the soldiers, directly and indirectly, benefited 85 families of the sector, which will be able to continue to grow cattle as main sustenance and, in the same way, use their lands without any fear.
Meanwhile, in La Montañita, the work carried out for seven months in the villages of La Paujilera and Agua Blanquita, where the land was contaminated more than eight years ago, the Multi Mission Heroes found an antipersonnel mine, cleaning up 20,627 square meters and contributing to the tranquility of 65 families.
Similarly, manual demining led to the destruction of two antipersonnel mines, clearing 11,165 square meters of the village El Pará, in the municipality of Florencia, where, according to information from villagers, a dog was killed a few years ago when an antipersonnel mine was activated. This led them not to travel through the tertiary road that leads from that sector to the San Pablo district. With the presentation of those lands the military benefited directly and indirectly 50 families.
The mine clearance specialists and the community walked and step on the above mentioned sectors completing in this way the formal presentation of the lands.
Source: Military Engineers Command
