The National Army announced this Wednesday, March 23, that, in the course of joint and coordinated military operations with the Navy and the Police, in the last hours three illegal warehouses were located in different areas of the department of Putumayo. In the proceedings, explosives, weapons and quartermaster were found, material intended to violate the integrity of the civilian population and the security forces.
In turn, the newspaper El Tiempo reported that according to the commander of the Sixth Army Division, General Fredy Marlon Coy Villamil, the material would belong to the 48th front that works in alliance with the Second Marquetalia, Residual Organized Armed Group (GAO-r) led by alias Ivan Márquez.
“The first result was in the village of El Espinal, a rural area of the municipality of San Miguel. There the troops found 443 kilograms of ANFO-type explosive packed in sacks. According to experts, with this material terrorists would have been able to manufacture more than 500 explosive devices, including anti-personnel mines, which would be used in terrorist actions against the civilian population, the security forces or the oil infrastructure of the region,” the National Army explained in a statement. he specified that the material was destroyed in a controlled manner by the soldiers of the National Army Explosives and Demolitions Group.
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Similarly, another operation was carried out in the village of Piñuña Negro, municipality of Puerto Leguízamo on the border with Puerto Asís, where 22 rifles, a grenade launcher, 73 suppliers, more than 4,900 units of ammunition of different calibers, 13 grenades, quartermaster and communications equipment, as well as clothing for use were seized exclusive to the Military Forces.
Finally, in Nueva Granada, municipality of Puerto Asís, the third illegal warehouse of the GAO-r E-48 was located. There were found 2 pistols, 4 suppliers, 70 units of ammunition and 4 machine-gun sight posts, as well as 250 grams of pentolite, with 44 containers for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices and 3 detonators, which would be used to attack the troops being developed military operations in this area of the Colombian Amazon.
According to the National Army, these results become the largest and most forceful impact made against the criminal logistics networks of the Gao-r E-48 so far in 2022.
He also specified that in the area where these events occurred, the operational offensive continues “to continue to affect the residual structures and thus continue to guarantee the security, defense and well-being of the inhabitants of the south of the country”.
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