Attack on the Puerto Jordan military base in the Colombian department Araucakilled two soldiers and wounded 25 others in an attack attributed to National Liberation Army guerrillas (ELN).

“We regret to inform that despite the efforts of doctors, two of the wounded professional soldiers did not survive due to the severity of their injuries. We express our deepest condolences to their families,” the Ministry of Defense portfolio wrote on its X account.

We are talking about soldiers Julian Patino Arango and Byron Andres Correa Vargas.

Meanwhile, the military medical apparatus continues to transport wounded soldiers after terrorist attack“added authorities, who said 18 of the wounded were being transferred to Bogota, while the rest continued to receive care at medical centers in Tama, Yopal and Arauca.

According to the Ministry of Defense, 27 servicemen were injured, “20 of whom were injured by shrapnel,” and seven were “seriously injured,” “in priority condition.”

Attack

According to the army, the Puerto Jordan battalion, located in the city of Arauquita, “was attacked explosive devices “an improvised weapon launched from a dump truck,” and after the attack, two people riding motorcycles and accompanying the dump truck at the time of the attack were captured.

“This terrorist act, attributed to the ELN organized armed group, the Domingo Laín Sáenz Military Front, was carried out near a school, putting the lives of minors at risk and constituting a flagrant violation of human rights and a serious breach of international humanitarian law,” the army said in a statement.

Photos circulating on social media show damage to military installations, especially roofs and soldiers’ living quarters.

You can also see a burnt-out car from which explosives were allegedly dropped on the military base.

Arauca, a department bordering Venezuela, has a strong ELN presence, as well as FARC dissidents and drug and human trafficking groups.

The ANO has stepped up its attacks in several regions of the country in the weeks since a ceasefire agreed with the government ended on August 3 without an extension and peace talks stalled.

Last Sunday, two soldiers were killed in the rural area of ​​Tame (Arauca) in an attack attributed to ELN militants, who shot them while they were at a checkpoint.

This terrorist escalation also includes attacks on the Caño Limón-Coveñas and Bicentenario oil pipelines, two of the most important in the country.

The 770-kilometer Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline carries oil from the Arauca wells to Coveñas, a Colombian port on the Caribbean Sea. EFE