Colombian police patrol the streets of Cartagena. File photoMEXICO CITY, Jan 30Two police officers were killed and three injured when a homemade bomb exploded in the way of the motorcade of the governor of the Colombian department of Caqueta, police chief General Jorge Vargas said. our patrolmen William Echeverria and Miguel Bernal were killed in Caquete,» the general wrote on Twitter.
Condenamos la cobarde acción terrorista que hoy les arrebató la vida a nuestros patrulleros William Echeverría y Miguel Bernal en #Caquetá. No permitiremos que el homicidio de ningún policía quede impune. Solidaridad con las familias de estos héroes de la patria. #NosDueleATodos pic.twitter.com/KyKzKxyUJW
— General Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia (@DirectorPolicia) January 30, 2022 Colombian police chief says law enforcement officers were securing the governor as his motorcade was touring the region. . The attack, «apparently, was carried out by people from the FARC.» The governor of Caqueta, Arnulfo Gasca Trujillo, was not injured, it is reported that after the attack he was evacuated by helicopter to the location of the Twelfth Army Brigade in Florence. The people from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC/FARC) were defeated into three large groups with a total number of about 5.2 thousand people. About 2,500 more people operate as part of the guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN/ELN). The authorities and the rebels negotiated peace for a long time, which ended with the signing of a peace agreement in 2016. After the demobilization of 13 thousand people, the Comunes political party was officially created on the basis of the FARC, but some people returned to guerrilla activities and drug trafficking. people died during the attack on the governor's motorcade