Their finding leads to neutralize the improvised manufacture of approximately 3,000 anti-personnel mines, with one kilo of explosive each.
This finding prevents a car, motorcycle or bicycle from being equipped with explosive material for a terrorist escalation in the Amazonas or Orinoquía regions or another region of the country.
This action was brought to the 37th section of the San José del Guaviare Prosecutor's Office.
In the framework of a military and inter-institutional operation carried out by troops of the Joint Task Force Omega, the Jungle Brigade 22 and the Attorney General's Office, it was possible to find what would be one of the most important illegal hiding places where the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, kept explosive material stored.
Soldiers of the Ground Operations Battalion No.6 and units of the Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación (CTI), in the municipality of Pororio, municipality of Puerto Concordia, Meta, found buried 13 plastic barrels with a ton and a half of explosive material and four anti-personnel mines were in the same way found at the site.
Information obtained by State Security agencies led to establish that alias Hermes Boyaco and alias Robinson Barbas, ringleaders of the GAO-r group, were coordinating the possible extraction of explosives and other items.
The explosive apparently of rudimentary manufacture was destroyed at the scene by the group EXDE (Explosives and Demolitions). It apparently was going to be used in terrorist actions against the security forces, putting life and good physical condition of civilians also at risk.
Source: press-Joint Task Force Omega
