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Four Colombian soldiers killed in rebel minefield | |
2009-05-18 | |
The soldiers belonged to a mobile unit specializing in anti-guerrilla warfare operating in the Norte de Santander department, on the border with Venezuela. The blast wounded a young woman and her newborn child, a source at the armyÂ’s 30th Brigade told AFP. The civilians were flown to a hospital in an army helicopter, the source said. On Friday, three police officers were killed and one wounded when guerrillas with another group, the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ambushed a patrol in Cubara, also near the border with Venezuela. | |
Posted by:Steve White |