Bogota.- Three alleged members of the Clan del Golfo, the country's main criminal gang, were killed by Colombian Army troops in fighting in the department of Antioquia, in the northwest of the country, sources reported on Wednesday. military.
The Eleventh Army Brigade said in a statement that the fighting occurred in a rural area of Zaragoza, where "three alleged members of this organized armed group were neutralized (killed)."
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The report added that one of the bodies was swept away by the current of the Nechí River at the time of the battle, so civil authorities were informed to look for it.
Likewise, three long weapons, three handguns, communication radios and quartermaster material were seized.
Last August, Colombian President Gustavo Petro authorized the opening of a "space for socio-legal conversation" with the Clan del Golfo, heir to the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), to establish the terms of submission to justice in the terms permitted by law, but it has not yet begun.
Unlike the other three negotiating tables set up - with the National Liberation Army (ELN) and with a part of the FARC dissidents from the Central General Staff (EMC) and with a splinter group from the Second Marquetalia - this is a space for socio-legal conversations, since the Government does not recognize the Clan del Golfo's political status.
