FARC guerrillas disguised as soldiers attacked on Tuesday a transport helicopter that had just landed flows in the town of Caloto in Cauca department (southwest), leaving six people dead in an unusual mode that mocked the high military presence in that region. Four of the victims are policemen and two were civilians.
"After landing the helicopter service makes Banco Agrario de Colombia, criminals gunned down the commander of the station, a deputy and two more soldiers, as well as for receiving remittances and a woman who received some wounds and later died "Efe reported the governor of the department of Cauca, Guillermo Alberto Gonzalez.
According to him, "the characteristics of the assault, it was the work of common criminals." For its part, the police commander of Cauca, Gen. Carlos Ernesto Rodriguez told reporters action attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Neither the helicopter, often transporting remittances in different locations, nor its crew were hit by gunfire.
"Once the unit landed in a soccer field Caloto, and was given the money to the custody of the police, the criminals involved," and fired indiscriminately, told Efe the governor in a telephone conversation from Popayan, the capital of Cauca. In the area of assault act FARC factions and criminal gangs.
The situation contrasts with what happened in other regions of the South American country coal exporter of coffee and where the guerrillas were forced to retreat to remote mountain and jungle areas. The department of Cauca is a mountainous area in the middle of a strategic corridor for drug trafficking where the FARC resist an intense military offensive.
"Between eight and 12 men in military uniforms came out firing from a house with guns, killed the (four) policemen and two civilians in the back. The first hypothesis is that it is the FARC and used the spoofing technique," said Reuters National Police Director General Oscar Naranjo. Naranjo said the rebels stole about $ 105,000 for a state branch of the Agricultural Bank.
The fighting and harassment are common in Cauca, and despite the increase in the number of troops, the Armed Forces have failed to oust the guerrillas or reduce their shares. Colombia faces an internal conflict for more than four decades in which the armed forces fighting the guerrillas and criminal gangs formed by former right-wing paramilitaries.
The two armed groups millionaires get income from production and trafficking of cocaine. 
"After landing the helicopter service makes Banco Agrario de Colombia, criminals gunned down the commander of the station, a deputy and two more soldiers, as well as for receiving remittances and a woman who received some wounds and later died "Efe reported the governor of the department of Cauca, Guillermo Alberto Gonzalez.
According to him, "the characteristics of the assault, it was the work of common criminals." For its part, the police commander of Cauca, Gen. Carlos Ernesto Rodriguez told reporters action attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Neither the helicopter, often transporting remittances in different locations, nor its crew were hit by gunfire.
"Once the unit landed in a soccer field Caloto, and was given the money to the custody of the police, the criminals involved," and fired indiscriminately, told Efe the governor in a telephone conversation from Popayan, the capital of Cauca. In the area of assault act FARC factions and criminal gangs.
The situation contrasts with what happened in other regions of the South American country coal exporter of coffee and where the guerrillas were forced to retreat to remote mountain and jungle areas. The department of Cauca is a mountainous area in the middle of a strategic corridor for drug trafficking where the FARC resist an intense military offensive.
"Between eight and 12 men in military uniforms came out firing from a house with guns, killed the (four) policemen and two civilians in the back. The first hypothesis is that it is the FARC and used the spoofing technique," said Reuters National Police Director General Oscar Naranjo. Naranjo said the rebels stole about $ 105,000 for a state branch of the Agricultural Bank.
The fighting and harassment are common in Cauca, and despite the increase in the number of troops, the Armed Forces have failed to oust the guerrillas or reduce their shares. Colombia faces an internal conflict for more than four decades in which the armed forces fighting the guerrillas and criminal gangs formed by former right-wing paramilitaries.
The two armed groups millionaires get income from production and trafficking of cocaine.
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