Three Colombian soldiers were killed and one injured near the Venezuelan border on Saturday after entering a minefield allegedly laid by the FARC, the military reported.
The soldiers had been carrying out routine tasks at a site known as Campo Colper, in a rural area of the municipality of Tibu in north Santander, when they wandered into territory believed to have been mined by the FARC’s 33rd Front.
The explosion took place near the oilfields of Canadian company Alange Energy, which FARC rebels attacked last week, burning around 1,000 barrels of oil but injuring nobody.