A fire broke out in the vicinity of Caño Limón-Coveñas after an ELN attack on the army. (GlobeLiveMedia file)

A serious emergency was reported on the night of Monday February 13, after allegations members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) attacked members of the army in the rural area of ​​Saravena (Arauca), resulting in a strong conflagration in the way El Consuelo.

The bone the insurgents reportedly attacked the soldiers with explosive devices as they guarded the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline, although none of them were seriously injured after the attack, amid a wave of armed harassment that has occurred over the past two weeks in this eastern region of the country, they reported on the radio W Radio.

He The fire occurred just after a loud explosion was heard, so department firefighters arrived on the scene, working to put out the flames. to prevent them from spreading to farms in the immediate vicinity of the place, they assured the regional news Facebook fan page News from Piedmont.

“Cenit and Ecopetrol reject these illegal actions and call for an end to these crimes against infrastructure that endanger the integrity of peoplegenerate serious consequences for the environment and affect the activities of communities and the oil industry”Mentioned in W Radio according to a statement from the oil companies.

It’s a new attack It is being reported to the Department of Petroleum after another attack on pipeline infrastructure was reported last Friday, February 10, which caused a load loss issue. hydrocarbon in the Banadía-Samoré section, indicated in snail radio.

The wave of attacks on Arauca’s oil infrastructure and the threats the ELN poses to workers in the Capachos field, It also increased the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in this department since they had to stop operations and obtain supplies from the Casanare fields, reported in the business journal The Republic.

“This hydrocarbon deposit provides 80% of the LPG demand of the department of Arauca”, They made reference in this means of communication to the statements of Alejandro Martínez Villegas, president of the Colombian Association of LPG (Gasnova).

The Guild Leader requested the support of the national government for the intervention of the police force in the region and hydrocarbon production activities can be restored.

And it is that the group of insurgents, of which began this week, is undergoing clashes with FARC dissidents in the rural area of ​​Tame which have caused the forced confinement of the civilian population, who fear they may find themselves in the middle of gunfights between outlaw groups that have piled up the lifeless bodies of fighters in the area, they said in FM.

precisely, from The Office of the Ombudsman called on the authorities to protect the population in the face of the complicated situation of public order.

“The violence in Arauca is not only affecting people in remote rural areas, it is also hitting cities and the economy. It is imperative that the actions of illegal armed groups in this department, already hard hit by violence and the escalation of the conflict, be stopped, and that the social and economic development of Araucanians be allowed,” he said. Carlos Camargo, Mediator.

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