On Monday nine Colombian soldiers died as their helicopter crashed in the northern Bolivar department, where the military is battling the biggest cocaine cartel, said the authorities.
President Gustavo Petro said on X, ‘The crash happened as the helicopter was delivering new troops for operations against the Gulf Clan’.
Neither Petro nor the military mentioned the reason for the crash of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter or whether the Clan, with some 4,000 armed fighters, had anything to do with it.
More details are awaited.
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