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| Rebels kill 12 troops in Colombia ambush |
| 2012-05-23 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Leftist guerrillas killed 12 Colombian army troops Monday and maimed four others in an ambush in a rural area in the northern tip of Colombia near the border with Venezuela, authorities said. "Unfortunately we have received reports of 12 soldiers dead and four maimed," said Yusti Maria Lopez, a security official in Maicao, the capital of the department of La Guajira. The ambush occurred in the Serrania de Perija mountain range in an area known as La Majayura, the official said. "Regional and national officials are drawing up a toll. We aren't ruling out that there were guerrilla dead too, but that's being analyzed by the army," Lopez said. |
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