A mayor, a sub-mayor and 11 patrolmen from the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad, Esmad, were injured on Friday night in Cali, after they an explosive device was thrown at the truck in which they were transported.
The attack occurred at around 10:00 pm on Carrera 46 and Calle 25, southeast of Cali, and was claimed by the ELN’s self-styled ‘National Urban War Front’.
The affected uniformed men were transferred to different healthcare centers in the capital of Valle.
“The report that I have from Police Health is that they are out of danger, some with injuries of greater attention, including one that is at the headquarters of the Valle del Lili Foundation,” General Jorge Luis Vargas said this Saturday. , director of the National Police,
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The officer informed the families of those affected that he will have all the operational capacity so that “as quickly as possible” they can reunite with their families and rejoin the Police.
Likewise, it indicated that a civilian who was walking by the place where the attack occurred was affected by the explosive wave, but that he did not suffer serious injuries and was discharged at 2:00 am this Saturday.
List of those injured in the Cali attack
1. Mayor Óscar Ochoa Rodríguez (stunned by the explosive wave; he has a damaged ear and a contusion on his left foot).
2. Subintendent Omar Andrés Zapata Muñoz (presents multiple splinter trauma, soft tissue trauma to the right leg).
3. Patrolman Felipe Zapata López (has multiple splinters on both legs).
4. Patrolman Carlos Julián Osorio Zuluaga (presents an irregular wound on the skull and a splinter near the neck).
5. Patrolman Óscar Iván Flórez Álvarez (stunned by the explosive wave).
6. Patrolman Fabio Andrés Payare Barrios (presents multiple splinter trauma, soft tissue trauma, face and right upper limb).
7. Patrolman Johan David Franco Daza (presents multiple trauma from splinters).
8. Patrolman Mauricio Javier Castañeda Puentes (presents splinters in the neck and head, trauma to the left eye and exposed fracture in both hands).
9. Patrolman Fabio Steven Rondón Tamayo (presents injuries in the left hand, multiple splinters in the buttocks and thighs).
10. Patrolman Jhoan Andrey Cifuentes Cano (presents a slight head injury and trauma to the ankle and foot).
11. Patrolman Luis Alberto Ramos Acevedo (has multiple injuries to members).
12. Patrolman Alejandro Naranjo Flórez (stunned by the explosive wave).
13. Patrolman Jefferson Alberto Loaiza Gómez (shows splinters in his left arm, stunned by the explosive wave).
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