{"id":3955,"date":"2020-07-22T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:50:36","slug":"nine-colombian-military-personnel-die-following-helicopter-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/nine-colombian-military-personnel-die-following-helicopter-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Colombian military personnel die following helicopter accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BOGOTA \u2014 At least nine members of Colombia\u2019s military died on Tuesday when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying them in operations against FARC guerrilla dissidents in the Andean country\u2019s Guaviare province was involved in an accident, the army reported.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3956 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/illuee-mag-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A Colombian national army pilot wears a face mask inside a helicopter amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bogota, Colombia April 7, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident, which is being investigated by military authorities, happened in the province\u2019s jungle region. Six other soldiers were wounded and two more are reported missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNine bodies were found,\u201d President Ivan Duque said in a television address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is a difficult moment. We recognize the heroism that our soldiers and police officers demonstrate in bringing us peace of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dissident former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) &#8211; who rejected a 2016 peace deal to end conflict with the government &#8211; have a strong presence in the region where the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FARC dissident groups focus on drug-trafficking activities and the illicit exploitation of minerals including gold, according to security sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Colombian army, air force and national police have dozens of UH-60 helicopters that are used to transport troops, supply ground units, and fight guerrillas and criminal gangs across the South American country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years most helicopter incidents have been caused by bad weather or mechanical failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a few cases such events have been attributed to attacks by guerrillas or criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA \u2014 At least nine members of Colombia\u2019s military died on Tuesday when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying them in operations against FARC guerrilla dissidents in the Andean country\u2019s Guaviare province was involved in an accident, the army reported.\u00a0 A Colombian national army pilot wears a face mask inside a helicopter amid the coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[2169,2171,2173],"class_list":{"0":"post-3955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-bogota","9":"tag-farc","10":"tag-the-revolutionary-armed-forces-of-colombia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}