The caravan of individuals that he was escorting Police and Army heading to Urabá was attacked this Monday after noon in the Guadual de Cañasgordas sector, km. 50, Dabeiba – Santa Fe de Antioquia road section, Western Antioquia.
The mayor of that municipality, Aicardo Urrego, confirmed to this newspaper that when the caravan passed An explosive device was activated, leaving four injured and two dead. According to the preliminary report, the fatalities would be a policeman and a military man.
According to the authorities, the incident occurred when a police and military device were accompanying the caravan of private and public service vehicles, covering the Medellín – Urabá route.
At the height of the sector known as Quiti, jurisdiction of the municipality of Cañasgordas, they were the object of a attack with activation of an explosive device and rifle bursts.
The caravan had left the Western Tunnel at 9:45 in the morning. The patrols were made up of a mixed group (Police and Army). The Edwin Román Velásquez Bayé substructure of the GAO Clan del Golfo operates in the area.
Earlier, authorities reported that a minor was injured in the back by a shot in the middle of an armed confrontation in the rural area of Remedios (Northeast Antioquia), specifically in the Panama 9 sector, which borders the municipalities of Segovia, in the same subregion, and Santa Rosa del Sur, in the department of Bolívar.
The attack occurs precisely when President Iván Duque was present in the territory and held a security council in Carepa on Monday, Uraba Antioquia.
Although the public force has assured that normality is returning to the municipalities affected by the criminal actions of the Clan del Golfo, the same statement issued by said group indicated that the armed strike would last until midnight on May 10.
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The 19 mayors of the West make an urgent call before the actions of the Clan del Golfo in their municipalities
In western Antioquia, the community feels “unprotected.” This is how the mayors of the 19 municipalities that make up this subregion informed President Iván Duque. By means of a letter they narrated the humanitarian situation that is being experienced due to the armed strike that the Clan del Golfo is carrying out.
“There have been burnings and retention of vehicles, shots fired into the air and against people, attacks on service infrastructure, suspension of home public services, shortages of natural gas and attacks on the medical mission, among others,” the officials wrote.
“Today —says the letter— in addition to poverty, the territory is subjected to paramilitary actions where those affected are always the most vulnerable inhabitants. The elderly, children and pregnant women are without medical attention; people who live from the daily have not been able to go out to work; our peasants and producers cannot market their products, there is already a shortage, we have corpses without treatment, due to road blockades; the local fire departments and civil defense cannot deal with public order emergencies and, from the national level, we do not receive a response or support.”