Two police officers killed and one injured in southern Bolívar

Both were patrolmen and are the two policemen who killed in the early morning hours of this Friday, April 25, in an attack by three men on the station of that institution in the municipality of Simiti, in the town of Bolívar. In the incident was wounded also patrolman Imanol Javier Escorcia Torres, who received an impact on the thigh of the left leg. He receives medical attention at the San Antonio de Padua Regional Hospital in the municipality …

The authorities report that three heavily armed individuals attacked a police patrol in Simiti, in the south of Bolívar. The incident caused the death of patrolmen Edwin Feria Mercado and Belén Durán Ortiz. The patrolman Imanol Escorcia was injured.The south of Bolívar is a war zone for the illegal mining business, which is disputed by the Gulf Clan, the ELN and the dissidences of the Farc. Last month two other patrolmen were killed after an att…