22/10/2011 14:00
10 soldiers 10 Colombian soldiers killed in terroristic attack
Ten soldiers were killed and six wounded in the deadliest guerrilla attack on Colombia’s security forces in more than a year, the army said Friday.
Military chief Gen. Alejandro Navas said “tactical errors” led to the deaths in an apparent ambush around midnight Thursday in the country’s turbulent southwest.
In a radio interview, he did not offer details. The local state governor, Antonio Navarro, told The Associated Press the soldiers died in a mortar attack.
It occurred near the Pacific port of Tumaco and the dead were part of a 27-man platoon on patrol near an African palm plantation.
Killed were a lieutenant and nine enlisted men.