Two mining production units and five excavators were destroyed as part of this operation against illegal mining extraction.
The quick reaction of the Military Forces led to neutralize this terrorist intention with which individuals planned to hit the inhabitants and the Military Forces.
In the Santa MarÃa village in Puerto AsÃs, Putumayo, two rustic structures built with wood and plastic were found by troops, their main use was the production of potassium permanga
During the intervention, 250 meters from a house, in the village of Los Alpinos, which had suspected anti-personnel mines, soldiers of the Humanitarian Demining Engineers Battalion No.
This finding prevented the commercialization of approximately 200 thousand doses of marijuana on the international illegal market.
In the inspections carried out in Güerima and San José de Ocuné, in Cumaribo, Vichada, two laboratories for the production of coca paste base were found by troops and neutralized.
The Colombian Sailors and navy men who made up the detachment of the Naval Institution paid tribute to Vice Admiral Juan Ricardo Rozo Obregón.
The search and rescue operation continues, in order to find the whereabouts of four people who are apparently missing.
The illegal hiding place was camouflaged in the rural area of the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia.
So far in 2024, in the Department of Norte de Santander, more than 30 seedbeds with more than 300,000 bushes have been found.