At least four soldiers dead and seven more soldiers injured This Friday a combat of the Colombian Army with the criminal gang left Gulf Clan in the northwest of the country, official sources reported.
The confrontation took place in Segovia, in the department of Antioquiawhere there are illegal mining operations whose control is disputed by the Clan del Golfo, the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the FARC.
“We condemn the vile murder of our professional Army soldiers in clashes against the Gulf Clan while they were carrying out military operations to protect the inhabitants of the rural area of Segovia (Antioquia),” said the Military Forces Command in its X account.
The deceased soldiers were professional soldiers Yeison Andrés Medina, Brayan Hoyos, Nilson Javier Guzmán and Anner Eduardo Lerma.
“An officer, two non-commissioned officers and four more professional soldiers, who were injured in this action, are receiving medical attention at this time, after being transferred to Barrancabermeja,” a city in the center of the country, the information added.
The Military Forces Command assured that will maintain operations in the area where the soldiers died “to find those responsible for the cowardly murder of our men and protect the civilian population.”
Precisely in Segovia, and also in the municipality of Remedios, the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia was on a working visit this Friday, Juliette De Riveroto monitor “the human rights situation” in the area, his office reported.
“We express concern that due to clashes between non-state armed groups at least 754 families in Segovia are affectedin the villages of Rancho Quemado, El Aguacate and Las Manuelas, and in the Tagual indigenous reservation,” warned the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
In this sense, he denounced that “non-state armed groups would be pressuring, attacking and harassing the civilian population of northeastern Antioquia, causing a deterioration of dignified life in the territory.”
One of these effects would be the lack of access to fuel for months.
The UN Office urged armed groups operating in the area to respect human rights and international humanitarian law.