Narco-drone shoots down Colombian National Police helicopter
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A helicopter from the Colombian National Police Air Service crashed in a rural area of the municipality of Amalfi, in the department of Antioquia, after being hit by a drone operated by an illegal armed group, according to police sources cited by regional media. The aircraft was participating in an operation to support ground troops engaged in the manual eradication of coca crops.
Unfortunately, at the time of this publication, the death toll has risen to 10 people.
According to information from preliminary reports, the helicopter, along with another aircraft, had deployed personnel in the area. Upon returning to their base, they received an alert that the ground units were under attack. During the extraction maneuver of the officers, one of the helicopters was struck by the unmanned aerial device, which caused it to go down.
The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, confirmed the incident and directly linked it to recent actions against drug trafficking in the region. "We managed to seize a ton and a half of cocaine from the 'Clan del Golfo' in Urabá, and their reaction is happening in the area, during the eradication of coca leaf in Amalfi, Antioquia, they managed to shoot down a police helicopter, with so far one technician killed," the president stated.
For his part, the governor of Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendón, described the event as a painful act for democracy. "In a rural area of Amalfi, they shot down a @PoliciaColombia helicopter that was apparently providing security to officers in manual coca eradication tasks. The police were attacked by a drone," he stated through his social media.
The model of the downed helicopter has not yet been specified, but tribute images from the Colombian National Police show a UH-60L Black Hawk, which has a length of 19.76 meters and can carry 12 equipped individuals.
The region where the events occurred is a strategic corridor for drug trafficking, with a strong presence of FARC dissidents and the 'Clan del Golfo'. Authorities are investigating which of these criminal structures is behind the attack.
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