Two areas of the municipality of Florida, in the south east of Valle del Cauca, which were suspected of antipersonnel mines, were decontaminated.
Valle del Cauca. One of the cleared areas was a tertiary road that led to the rural school of the municipality of El Líbano, where 80 minors study, who for five years have been forced to look for different ways to reach their destination, thus spending more time in their travels, but preventing the imminent danger of losing their lives due to explosive devices.
During the work of clearing carried out during six months, the soldiers of the Battalion of Engineers of Humanitarian Demining No. 6, only found an antipersonnel mine in the zones where seven years ago a settler was victim of a deadly trap.
So, by means of the manual demining technique, the mine clearance specialists verified 13,694 square meters that could have been contaminated.
Thus, in less than eight days, the soldiers have presented four areas or “polygonal zones” free of mines in Valle del Cauca territory.
The humanitarian demining tasks in this opportunity led to benefit about 300 inhabitants of that region.
Source: Humanitarian Demining Engineers Brigade No. 1
