:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/NIIINAENTJCOFNCK7AZA2UOFEA.png "A sniper assassinated a police patrolman in Sardinata (Norte de Santander) 1")
Less than 24 hours after the death of a soldier was reported in La Plata (Huila), the country’s Force Publique lost another of its members, the patrolman Jaison Jiménez in the municipality of Sardinata (Norte de Santander) who was killed after a sniper attack afternoon of Wednesday February 22.
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“There The National Police rejects and condemns the unfortunate criminal action committed around 5:15 in the afternoon at the Las Mercedes substation from the municipality of Sardinata, where he (in uniform) died, who was on duty at the facilities, due to a shot with a long-range weapon by a sniper”reported Colonel Alejandro Reyes, departmental commander of this institution.
The officer added that with the The army is carrying out the corresponding investigations to establish which armed group carried out the homicide and expressed condolences to the loved ones of the deceased uniformed man.
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“Immediately and In coordination with the Military Forces, we deploy all the capacities and actions aimed at identifying, locating and capturing those responsible for this criminal action. as soon as possible. The National Gendarmerie stands in solidarity with the respected family of the patrolman who gave his life in the line of duty and accompanies them in this difficult moment,” he said.
Alternately, the director of the establishment, the General Henry Sanabria, also sent him a posthumous tribute to the patrol car
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“With arrogance the wicked furiously persecutes the humble; but he must be caught in the traps he himself has laid; the harassment claimed the life of young police officer Jaison Charrys. May the Lord God console his family and fill him with hope in adversity (sic)”, chirped the tall officer.
There The death of patrolman Jiménez comes on the same day that soldier Wilmer Vargas Medina lost his life the morning after armed harassment who apparently perpetrated a dissent from the extinct FARC guerrillas in the area known as Los Kioscos on Vía La Plata (Huila)-Inzá (Cauca).
According to the known preliminary information about the fact, the criminal structurel Dagoberto Ramos allegedly ambushed the group of soldiers where the deceased soldier was and where, in addition, Another of the men in uniform was hit.
“In a meeting fight between troops of the 26th Infantry Battalion of the Ninth Brigade and suspected members of Dagoberto Ramos. We have a deceased soldier identified as Vargas Medina Wilmer and an injured NCO.” the military reported in a statement.
Authorities reported that after the attack on the Army in Huila there are fights. There dagoberto ramos is in command of alias David oh chilongaa criminal who, between 2016 and 2018, was linked to the Reincorporation Agency during peace process.
Actually Civilians were also injured, including a woman who was riding a motorbike with her husband and who was hit by shrapnel from the explosive device thrown at members of the army. reported in the regional newspaper The nation.
“She is recovering, she was hit by the explosion of a grenade”, La Plata Mayor Luis Carlos Anaya reported in Huila newspaper.
Wednesday evening, in Neiva, capital of the department, they held a vigil in the military canton of the Ninth Brigade of the Army.
“For our hero, our soldier, because we believe we need absolute peace in Colombia now. The National Army needs this support from our government and the people who are here are asking for peace,” said one of the participants in Noticias Caracol.