COLOMBIA
Eleven Colombian military personnel were missing and six were injured after a helicopter was shot down by an offshoot of Farc guerrillas in the southeast of the country. The Blackhawk helicopter was carrying 17 military personnel when it went down, the corpses of 11 soldiers have been found till date.
Authorities found the helicopter in a stretch of the river Inirida in Guaviare state, an area where former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerillas are active. The Farc rebels laid down their arms in a 2016 peace deal that ended a half century of conflict and turned the guerillas into a communist political party.
According to authorities, more than 2,000 guerrillas refused to join the 13,000 rebels that signed the peace deal and continue to resist against the government.
