As guarantors of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, the lives of two alleged members of the Residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, who were wounded after military operations carried out by troops of the Joint Task Force Omega in the department of Guaviare, were protected when deploying an aeromedical transfer mission.
Colombian Air Force crews reacted immediately to the request issued by the National Personnel Recovery Center informing about the situation of the two individuals of the group of Jhon Linares, terrorist structure of alias Gentil Duarte, in the municipality of San Antonio Alto, in the municipality of San José del Guaviare.
The guerrillas received first aid by the combat nurses who were part of the ongoing operation, who stabilized the patients until the arrival of the aircraft where the military personnel of the special rescue team continued to assist and monitor these two people in flight.
These people were identified as alias Marlon, 17, and alias Andrés, 20, both shot on their lower limbs and were promptly taken in a Black Hawk helicopter from the rural area of the department of Guaviare to the Air Combat Command No. 2, in the department of Meta, where an ambulance was waiting for them to be sent to the departmental hospital in Villavicencio.
Source: press-Colombian Air Force
